Re: Referrer variable

Tony Oslund Wed, 06 Oct 2004 08:58:03 -0700

This is correct, the HTTP_REFERER is not guaranteed to be in the header.

If you search for REFERER in the following doc it points this out. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html. (Thank you Robert Fuess at Digital Point Forums).

Ilan wanted to know how to access this value so I didn't want to stop him. Depending upon his environment and what he is doing it may or may not give him the desired result. He seemed pretty confident and direct so I assumed that he knew about its limitations.

By the way, this is not a Turbine limitation, but apparantly (based on various comments) can be caused by the browser (as you stated), proxy servers, ssl, dhtml, and numerous other real (or imagined) culprits ;-).

----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Lawler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Turbine Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 7:28 PM Subject: Re: Referrer variable

But a word of caution, the referer is not a required header! It is encouraged "as a convenience to the back end" but not a required attribute of a request. We were bitten by this at tribe.net as I was relying on referer being there all the time which isn't true for all browsers. It turns out that we had a case of IE6 on Windows XP (or something like that) where the referer was not in fact being passed in.


On Sep 30, 2004, at 4:09 AM, Ilan Azbel wrote:

Thanks, this worked!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Oslund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 29 September 2004 04:25
To: Turbine Users List
Subject: Re: Referrer variable


I believe that this is what you are looking for.

This info is contained in the request header and can be obtained
from there.

System.out.println("referrer = " +
data.getRequest().getHeader("referer"));

Enumeration e = data.getRequest().getHeaderNames();
while (e.hasMoreElements()) {
  String str = (String) e.nextElement();
  System.out.println(str);
}

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ilan Azbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Turbine Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 8:38 AM
Subject: RE: Referrer variable

This is not quote what I am looking for:
String query = data.getRequest().getQueryString();
this code gets the variable QUERY_STRING, not HTTP_REFERER
String destination = data.getRequest().getRequestURI();
I quote from the docs:
"Gets, from the first line of the HTTP request, the part of

this request's

URI that is to the left of any query string".
I thought this was going to be an easy question to answer, but

obviously I

was mistaken.
I am specifically looking for the value of the HTTP_REFERER

variable. Any

further help would be appreciated.

Thanks
Ilan

-----Original Message-----
From: Tony Oslund [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 29 September 2004 03:27
To: Turbine Users List
Subject: Re: Referrer variable


You can get the information you are looking for from the request
object...

            String query = data.getRequest().getQueryString();
            String destination = data.getRequest().getRequestURI();

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ilan Azbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Turbine Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 7:55 AM
Subject: RE: Referrer variable

I also see that this doesn't exatcly give me what I am looking for.
I am looking for the contents of the HTTP_REFERER variable.

Ilan

-----Original Message-----
From: J�rgen Hoffmann [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 29 September 2004 02:36
To: Turbine Users List
Subject: Re: Referrer variable


Hi Ilan,

HttpUtils.getRequestURL(RunData.getRequest());

Kind regards
J�rgen Hoffmann

Am Mi, den 29.09.2004 schrieb Ilan Azbel um 13:26:

Hello, I am using Turbine with Velocity.
I am needing to get hold of the 'referrer' value (the value

that contains

the URL of the web page from which the user has clicked).

Which Turbine / Velocity class can I use to get hold of this?

Thanks
Ilan

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