Thanks for the precious information. I've sent a request to paypal asking for
suggestions. I will post to the list once I got the answer.

--- Bob Showalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shao-Ju Chao [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 9:49 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: HTTP_REFERER
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks. I was setting up some Paypal stuff and want to make 
> > sure that the user is
> > actually coming from Paypal (https://www.paypal.com.....) and 
> > then come to my web page to
> > ativate their account. The "return" link is on Paypal and 
> > when they click the link and
> > return, I checked the HTTP_REFERER and expect it to be 
> > "https://www.paypal.com..."; but it
> > wasn't. 
> 
> Per RFC 2616, clients are not supposed to send a Referer header
> in a non-secure request when the referring page used a secure
> transfer (https).
> 
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