The following reply was made to PR general/3211; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Brant Pickard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: general/3211: HTTP_REFERER does not work
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1998 15:41:45 -0400
Hi,
The "Bug" turned out to be, as usual, Human Error. Sorry to alarm
everyone!
Thank You,
Brant Pickard
Marc Slemko wrote:
>
> On 14 Oct 1998, Brant Pickard wrote:
>
> > >How-To-Repeat:
> > http://www.webnautics.com/cgi-bin/refer.pl -- ENV print out....link to it
> > and you
> > will see the REF: is blank!
>
> Sorry, it isn't blank:
>
> HTTP_REFERER : file://localhost/tmp/foo.html
>
> Double check what you are doing, and be sure you are linking to it from a
> page got via HTTP and not from a local file, since some clients won't send
> referers from local files.
