very strange. my copy of netscape 4.77 (as well as my copy of IE 5)
correctly give the url of the referring page in HTTP_REFERER.
by the way, this variable is not suitable for authentication, as it
can easily be spoofed. just a warning, ymmv.
* Dianne Van Dulken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001-06-06 23:22]:
> Hi Joe,
>
> This gives us the current host. We actually want to get the referrer to
> this page.
>
> What we are actually trying to do is to control people from viewing an
> include, according to their IP. A remote page calls it, and if it is off a
> given IP website, it gets one result, otherwise, it gets another.
>
> When I use remote_host, it gives me MY personal IP address.
> HTTP_REFERER gives the webpage server IP address.
>
> Does this make sense?
>
> The version of Netscape we are using that is giving us no result is 4.7
>
> Thanks
>
> Dianne
> >
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