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[Gitstat-devel] New code that uses HTTP_REFERER doesn't work for me

[Paul V. <pau...@gm...>]

Hi,

When I now go to the main page (index.php) I don't get to see any of the charts. 
My apache error_log show index.php as being the referer and not chart.php.

I have to check for both index.php and chart.php to get everything working.

What version of apache/php are you running?

And btw on the page http://nl3.php.net/reserved.variables it's mentioned that:

==
'HTTP_REFERER'
     The address of the page (if any) which referred the user agent to the 
current page. This is set by the user agent. Not all user agents will set this, 
and some provide the ability to modify HTTP_REFERER as a feature. In short, it 
cannot really be trusted.
==

Cheers,

Paul.

Re: [Gitstat-devel] New code that uses HTTP_REFERER doesn't work for me

[<jun...@gm...>]

I used domain name instead of 'chart.php' at tree.celinuxforum.org.
I made some plan to make variable for domain name in config.php and to
check that variable.
and I tested on MSIE and firefox 2.0 and 1.0.
but, so it seems to be some problem. As has been mentioned it cannot be trusted.

I have read your e-mail about a solution with DB,
but, there is some downside.
if 'chart.php' takes long time or server have  traffic, some user
could leave chart page.
in case of that, chart-table had been created and and couldn't be removed .
but I thought that it works fine in many case .

If you could make patch for this ,it could be better solution.
could u make it for gitstat user?
Thanks,

On 9/4/07, Paul Vriens <pau...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When I now go to the main page (index.php) I don't get to see any of the charts.
> My apache error_log show index.php as being the referer and not chart.php.
>
> I have to check for both index.php and chart.php to get everything working.
>
> What version of apache/php are you running?
>
> And btw on the page http://nl3.php.net/reserved.variables it's mentioned that:
>
> ==
> 'HTTP_REFERER'
>     The address of the page (if any) which referred the user agent to the
> current page. This is set by the user agent. Not all user agents will set this,
> and some provide the ability to modify HTTP_REFERER as a feature. In short, it
> cannot really be trusted.
> ==
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul.
>
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Re: [Gitstat-devel] New code that uses HTTP_REFERER doesn't work for me

[Paul V. <pau...@gm...>]

??? wrote:
> I used domain name instead of 'chart.php' at tree.celinuxforum.org.
> I made some plan to make variable for domain name in config.php and to
> check that variable.
> and I tested on MSIE and firefox 2.0 and 1.0.
> but, so it seems to be some problem. As has been mentioned it cannot be trusted.
>

Hi,

yes this work also at my 'site' now. Thanks.

> I have read your e-mail about a solution with DB,
> but, there is some downside.
> if 'chart.php' takes long time or server have  traffic, some user
> could leave chart page.
> in case of that, chart-table had been created and and couldn't be removed .
> but I thought that it works fine in many case .
> 

As said, it was just a brainwave. I'll have a look again so see how/if we can 
deal with leftover table entries.

> If you could make patch for this ,it could be better solution.
> could u make it for gitstat user?
> Thanks,
> 

What do mean with 'gitstat user'? Is that compared to 'gitstat admin' or just to 
say everyone that uses gitstat?

Cheers,

Paul.