Some firewalls (such as Norton's - I know this from personal experience), 
block or change the http_referer that is sent from the browser to the 
server. In the case or Norton, it gets changed to http_weferer, and consists 
of a rather random looking alphabet soup.

Cheers,
Mark




>Okay.  I'm stumped.  I had this whole lovely plan for something I'm working
>on.  It involved looking at the value of CGI.HTTP_REFERER.  But that value
>isn't coming up on my radar.  It doesn't matter what browser I use.  It's
>just not there.  I've tried different spellings (REFERRER, REFERER), looped
>through every variable available, put a reference without a variable scope
>prefix, everything.  It just doesn't show up.
>
>I understand that the CGI variables returned are based on the server
>configuration.  So I guess my entire pile of questions is:
>
>A) Am I doing something simple and obviously stupid?
>
>B) What would I have to do to my server to get it to return this variable:
>is it on the CFAS side, or on the HTTP-server-software side?
>
>Thanks for any help anyone can give.  I need this blasted variable!!
>
>Matthieu
>
>
>
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