Re: [PHP] Bogus headers returned by firewalls

2004-03-23 Thread Christophe Chisogne
Pablo Gosse a écrit : munging up the HTTP_REFERER for a page? In HTTP, Referer is an OPTIONAL field in the HTTP/1.1 spec (see rfc 2616). I saw many strange referers (like 'Empty', 'bookmarks' 'XXX++', 'Removed by YYY', etc) sent or modified by security assistants, browsers, spiders... You can

[PHP] Bogus headers returned by firewalls

2004-03-22 Thread Pablo Gosse
Hi folks. Has anyone out there ever had any issues with a user's personal firewall munging up the HTTP_REFERER for a page? I've got a mailer script which is accessed from a few domains within our network of sites, and sometimes users have been getting an error which informs them the script has

Re: [PHP] Bogus headers returned by firewalls

2004-03-22 Thread John W. Holmes
From: Pablo Gosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi folks. Hi. Has anyone out there ever had any issues with a user's personal firewall munging up the HTTP_REFERER for a page? Yes. Some firewalls will do this for privacy reasons so you can't tell where they came from. You can't do anything about it, but