How do I get the address that is in the users browser?

[BRCMarketing]

www.mysite.com/default.asp

vs.

www.mysite.com/ (assuming default.asp is the default document)

How can I know what the user has in their address bar?

I tried Request.ServerVariables("URL") but that returns /default.asp either way.

[aspdaddy]

Try these too - HTTP_HOST, SCRIPT_NAME, PATH_INFO
You might need to join a couple together to get the actual url.

[BRCMarketing]

Unfortunately none of those work either...

anyone have any other ideas?

[carlb007]

you could maybe use a redirect the first time the page is loaded that then sends it back to the same place. Then use: HTTP_REFERER to check the page that it came from?

Im not sure if it picks the variable up on a redirect tho, or whether it requires a physical link or click by a user. Something to try though...

[Easy_Coder]

"http://" + Request.ServerVariables("server_name") + Request.ServerVariables("path_info")

[bsterz]

I see your problem..

When requests are made to the default directory, the path_info shows the name of your default document (in this case default.asp) rather than "hostname/".

I'll install IIS and play with it.

Bill

[mrMister]

Override the default rewriting mechanism in IIS using something like ISAPI_Rewrite (in which case, you'll get an X header telling you where the original request came from)

Otherwise use Javascript to retrieve the contents on the client's browser and have it send the data to your server using AJAX.

[vite_rts]

I had a similar issue

see

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