Re: FLASH: HTTP Referrer IE Windows

[Markus Gut]

"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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