By definition: The referer, or HTTP referer, identifies, from the point of view of an internet webpage or resource, the address of the webpage (commonly the URL, the more generic URI or the i18n updated IRI) of the resource which links to it.
More detail at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referer http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616 So is a redirecting page a referrer or not? I don't know. Had no time to translate the gibberish. I experimented a bit with it and the most suitable solution I found was passing the referring page on with a GET parameter ... ################## A page redirecting to test.php ################## <?php $location = (empty($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"])) ? 'Location: test2.php' : 'Location: test2.php?ref='.urlencode(base64_encode(gzdeflate($_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], 8))); header($location); ?> ################## test.php ################## <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Referrer Test Page</title> <script type="text/javascript"> alert('Referrer ('+(typeof document.referrer)+'['+document.referrer.length+']): '+document.referrer); </script> </head> <body> <h1>Referred page</h1> <? $page = ($_GET['ref']) ? @gzinflate(base64_decode(urldecode($_GET['ref']))) : 'not found'; echo <<<REFERRER <h2>Referring page: $page</h2> REFERRER; ?> </body> </html> ##################### A yeti -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
