[NTLUG:Discuss] M$ strikes again

[Paul Ingendorf]

I ran across this same issue a few years ago with I.E.  What blew me away is
that the same machine worked with asp but not php.  Anyway we eventually got
it working on the machine by going through the settings in ie I wish I could
remember what was changed that made it work but I would imagine through
change and try you will be able to find it quicker than a solution for your
no bookmark problem.  Although a javascript setting a cookie on unload with
a life of maybe 30 seconds might do the trick.

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Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 12:27 PM
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Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] M$ strikes again


MadHat wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 21:46, Greg Edwards wrote:
>
>>Not strictly a linux question, but it is an open standards (HTTP) and
>>open source (Apache) question.
>>
>>I've come across a problem with an M$ browser that does not send the
>>HTTP_REFERER field with any requests.  Every request has "-" in the
>>referer field.  Like a fool I use this to validate access to some CGI
>>programs for security reasons.  These are not redirects or foreign links.
>>
>>Is there a way to force the browser to send it or did Mr. Bill screw me
>>again?  So far my I've only found 1 user in my logs that has this
>>problem.  It's a recent MSIE update so I'm sure I'll be seeing more!!
>
>
> What version?  What's it claim to be.  I have not seen this.  Are you
> sure theya re not behind a proxy that might be stripping the data out?
>

I just got confirmation from the user that this is IE 6.0.2800.1106IS on
a Windows 98SE platform.  My Windows 98SE test platform is IE
6.0.2800.1106IC.

I haven't found any other accesses in my logs where the referer is not
sent when the source page (link from) was read off my site.  I don't
expect the referer from a bookmarked page or foreign cached page.  I
have 4 pages that I don't want accessed from bookmarks so I use the
referer, well I use to use referer ;)

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