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Subject: | Re: FLASH: HTTP Referrer IE Windows |
From: | Markus Gut |
Date: | Mon, 14 Feb 2000 23:34:50 GMT |
"Referer" isn't a variable of any scripts, it's a field of a HTTP
request-header.
Quoted from RFC 2616 - HTTP/1.1:
( http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.txt )
<quote>
14.36 Referer
The Referer[sic] request-header field allows the client to specify,
for the server's benefit, the address (URI) of the resource from
which the Request-URI was obtained (the "referrer", although the
header field is misspelled.) The Referer request-header allows a
server to generate lists of back-links to resources for interest,
logging, optimized caching, etc. It also allows obsolete or mistyped
links to be traced for maintenance. The Referer field MUST NOT be
sent if the Request-URI was obtained from a source that does not have
its own URI, such as input from the user keyboard.
</quote>
You can't send this HTTP request-header field as a Flash variable or
anything else. The problem has nothing to do with Flash (maybe MSIE doesn't
send the referer field from links in Flash movies, but user agents don't
HAVE to do so). Ccnow MUST NOT rely on a given referer request-header field,
that's all. You should contact those guys and ask themselves for help.
Markus
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FLASH: HTTP Referrer IE Windows, Erik Mattheis
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