My bad. I figured out the answer right after I sent the first message.
It's stored in the CGI.QUERY_STRING as
404;http://www.oursite.com/theirsitename;
That's easy enough to handle :)
Thanks anyway.
Todd
- Original Message -
From: Todd Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2001 12:52 AM
Subject: finding the referer after a redirect to an error page.
| Oh jeez .. let me see if I can explain this ...
|
| We are setting up a site where people can come sign up and get their own
web
| site. The trick is, we don't want to have to fool with making changes in
| the registry, or IIS. So, we came up with this brilliant idea of
storing
| a site name in the customer master database that is the name of the
| subdirectory that their site would normaly sit in if we created a folder
for
| them and mapped it in IIS (www.oursite.com/theirsitename). The idea is
that
| when someone comes looking for www.oursite.com/theirsitename, it won't
| really exist and they will be shuffled off to the default error page. We
| have replaced the error page with a cf file that parses out
theirsitename
| and then performs a lookup in the database for information associate with
| theirsitename, sets some client variables, and then shoots them off to
the
| main application that everyone REALLY uses. The client variables contain
| folder paths and database file info that determines what data is displayed
| to what users.
|
| OK .. I hope that made sense. Anyway .. when the visitor is redirected to
| the 'default error' page, the URL that they were trying to get to gets
lost.
| I don't know enough about IIS or HTTP protocols to know if it's even
| possible to keep track of this information. Does anyone know how I could
| accomplish this?
|
| Thanks!
|
| Todd
|
~~
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