Jake, CF gets the CGI variables from the webserver. If IIS doesn't receive the referral data, then CF will have a blank CGI var. HTTP_REFERER, just like USER_AGENT is created on the client side and passed up to webserver. Therefore it can be easily faked, deleted or blocked out. Most visitors will pass a referral though, just don't rely it on being present.
Daniel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jake McKee Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 10:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Grabbing user data on CFHTTP? I'm using CFHTTP to read an RSS file into an application. I'd like to be able to track the user Web sites that are calling this RSS file. I'm having some IIS weirdness, and my log files aren't properly tracking referrer, so I'd like to do this with code. Is that possible? Since I don't really need to do anything with the data, I'm just doing simple logging: <cffile action="append" file="C:\Inetpub\www.blogfusion.com\referrer_log.txt" output="#CGI.SERVER_NAME#"> But this is just capturing the site where the RSS feed is being hosted. Any ideas? Thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm ---------------------------------------------------------- To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberUnsubscribe.cfm To subscribe: http://www.dfwcfug.org/form_MemberRegistration.cfm
