Have you checked that your user is indeed coming from "http://www.somedomain.com/index.html";? There are lots of other ways to load your homepage:
"http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/index.html"; (ip address, not domain) "http://www.somedomain.com/"; "http://www.somedomain.com"; "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"; "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/"; You'll have to check for all of them.... -Dan --- tom hilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I am using the $HTTP_REFERER variable to ensure that users of a > website > are getting to a certain page through a link from the index.html > page, and > not going straight to the page through a bookmark. > > $page=$HTTP_REFERER; > if ($page!="http://www.somedomain.com/index.html";) > { > echo "<h3>Please log in through the home page</h3><br>"; > echo "<META HTTP-EQUIV='Refresh' > CONTENT='1;URL=http://www.somedomain.com/index.html'>"; > } > This is working fine for most users, but one user is telling me that > even > though she is following the link from the index page, she's still > getting > the error message, and are being bounced back to the index page. > She is > using Internet Explorer 6.0. Are there any security or privacy > settings > that might restrict use of the $HTTP_REFERER variable? Or is there a > better > way to make sure users follow links to pages, rather than bookmarking > and > going straight to a page? Thanks for any help you can give me. > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Movies - coverage of the 74th Academy Awards® http://movies.yahoo.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
