On 06/10/2002 23:19:46 perl-win32-users-admin wrote:

>Some browsers do not send the referer header. This variable seems so
>useful, I'm wondering why it is being left out. Is it an error? Is it

Some people consider REFERER a privacy leak (and have written browsers
which don't send it by design !)
If the browser doesn't send HTTP_REFERER, there's little the server can
do (apart from refusing to serve up the page).

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