Re: [phpesp-dev] Patch for Auto-publishing

[Matthew G. <gr...@mu...>]

On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:31:35AM -0400, James E. Flemer wrote:
> Well ... Ideally the "return" link is supposed to be to the
> page _before_ the survey.
Oh duh, yeah that would make sense.

> 
> So you've got some index.html somewhere with
>   [a href="/survey.php?name=foo"] Take a Survey [/a]
> Then the "return" link should take you back to
> "index.html".
> 
> However if you type http://place.ext/survey.php?name=foo
> into the url bar, then there is no referrer, so it sorta
> goes back to itself.
> 
> What do you all think the policy should be?
> 
> Vote:
>    http://phpesp.sf.net/demo/test.php?sid=2944&userid=devel

Vote cast.
> Results:
>    http://phpesp.sf.net/demo/test.php?sid=2944&results=1
> 
> -James
> 
> 
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Matthew Gregg wrote:
> 
> > The change to remove "name=xxx" from the query string brings up a
> > small problem.
> >
> > The first time through a survey the referer is set correctly so that
> > the "return" link on the "thank you" page works correctly, however, if
> > you click that link to take the survey again, the "name=xxx" will be
> > dropped from the referer.  So a second time through the survey the
> > "return" link fails.
> 

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