On Tue, Sep 30, 2003 at 10:19:01AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Q2. The order page calls a Perl script say "orderpage.pl", I want the > script to capture the "hop=some_data". I got the script to print the whole > %ENV, and I see no "HTTP_REFERER". I thought "HTTP_REFERER" would show the
That's because it's not the referrer. The referrer is the page containing the link that was used to get to your page. The stuff after the '?' is QUERY_STRING. To pick a random example, http://www.slug.org.au/index.html contains this link: <a href="about.html">Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG)</a> If I follow the link to load "about.html", HTTP_REFERER will be "http://www.slug.org.au/index.html"; and QUERY_STRING will be empty. To pick another random example, slug's events page contains this link: <a href="detail.html?id=91"> If I follow that link, HTTP_REFERER will be "http://www.slug.org.au/events/"; and QUERY_STRING will be "id=91". Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key id: 0xD59C360F http://kirriwa.net/john/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
