just a guess - you only get a referrer if you clicked on a link to this
page.
If you load the page directly, ie type it into the address bar, you get
no cgi.http_referrer.
Spent an hour puzzling over this last week!
> ----------
> From: Steven Douglas
> Reply To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2001 9:43 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Get 404 referrer
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to capture the http referrer from a 404 page. In the
> cfadmin I
> have a page set up to handle the 404, and in the source of that page I
> am
> outputting cgi.http_referrer but it comes up blank in both ie and
> netscape.
> Is there any other way to capture the referring page, or is cf doing
>
> something weird when a 404 is encountered.
>
> Any help is appreciated. Thanks!
>
> -Steven
>
>
>
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