how mod rewrite affects HTTP REFERER

HTTP_REFERER and basename

[jeffz2009]

without mod: [anydomain.co.uk...]
with mod: [anydomain.co.uk...]

will I be able to dig out from HTTP_REFERER users.php? (eg. using basename) once rewrite_mod is used?

[jdMorgan]

You're going to have to be more specific here, as it's impossible to say without seeing the rule that you're asking about...

Jim

[TheMadScientist]

I'm not sure if I'm understanding the question, because I keep thinking <?php echo $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; ?> will tell you the answer to your question... If you echo out $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; at the top of the https://www.anydomain.co.uk/admin/Smith page, you'll see exactly what you have to work with... Either it's there or it's not.

[g1smd]

Many browsers resend the original referrer data when responding to a redirect.

Some firewall and internet security software strips all referrer data from information sent to a server.

Searchengines don't send referrer data because they don't immediately follow the redirect. They make a note of the redirected URL and crawl it later from their list of URLs to crawl.

Referrer data cannot be relied on all that much.

[jeffz2009]

I think I mixed two things up ... pains of learning.
I guess I mixed up browser's location bar content and HTTP_REFERER contained in GLOBALS.

[g1smd]

Browser URL bar shows the last URL that the browser asked the server to serve.

[TheMadScientist]

If you're rewriting back to /admin/users.php?user=Smith then <?php print_r($_GET); echo "<br /><br />".$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'] ?> should give you some ideas...

(You must be rewriting or planning to for it to work at all, so the answer is, as long as you pass the QUERY_STRING you need to the actual location of the file you are running to generate the output for the new 'friendly' URL, then yes, you will be able to get the correct QUERY_STRING to your script, and can even put it together the same way in a Mod_Rewrite Environmental Variable if you need it there.)

If you are not rewriting yet, you will need to and the process can get a bit complicated, but there are tutorials in the Library, including this one: [webmasterworld.com...] on how to do it.

Hope this one is actually some help.

BTW: We all seems to have forgotten our manners...
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