document.referrer..

[Frances Del Rio]

if I put alert(document.referrer) in code of a file that was linked from
another it returns blank... pls, need to get document.referrer, don't
why it's not working... read up on oreilly, don't know what I'm doing
wrong.. thank you.. Frances

 

[McKirahan]

if I put alert(document.referrer) in code of a file that was linked from
another it returns blank... pls, need to get document.referrer, don't
why it's not working... read up on oreilly, don't know what I'm doing
wrong.. thank you.. Frances

Try "referer".

Also, it may be blocked by many firewalls.

 

[kaeli]

if I put alert(document.referrer) in code of a file that was linked from
another it returns blank... pls, need to get document.referrer, don't
why it's not working... read up on oreilly, don't know what I'm doing
wrong.. thank you.. Frances

Referer is spelled (incorrectly, but that's a long story):
document.referer

Note that is should NEVER be relied upon. It is not accurate and can easily
be spoofed. I spoof it all the time to get into stuff.

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[Frances Del Rio]

Try "referer".

Also, it may be blocked by many firewalls.

thank you.. I did try "referer", it returns "undefined".. don't know
about the firewall thing since here at work we use referrer checking
w/asp and it works.. needed to do client-side.. but found another
solution for what I needed to do.. however, still would like to know
why this thing isn't working b/c sooner or later will need to use
client-side again.. thank you again.. Frances

 

[Mick White]

Referer is spelled (incorrectly, but that's a long story):
document.referer

"document.referrer" works for me.

[...]
Mick

 

[RobB]

I always use "document.referrrrrer". Very nice.

 

[kaeli]

Referer is spelled (incorrectly, but that's a long story):
document.referer

"document.referrer" works for me.

[...]

Sorry, the header is called referer.
Perhaps javascript does use the correct spelling to access it. My bad.

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html

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[Randy Webb]

if I put alert(document.referrer) in code of a file that was linked from
another it returns blank... pls, need to get document.referrer, don't
why it's not working... read up on oreilly, don't know what I'm doing
wrong.. thank you.. Frances

SWAG: You are testing it in IE offline. IE does not report the referrer
property when testing a page offline.

 

[Frances Del Rio]

SWAG: You are testing it in IE offline. IE does not report the referrer
property when testing a page offline.

this is interesting.. had no idea and hadn't thought of that... I WAS
testing locally, and I need it for a CD.. referrer URL would be locally
from same CD.. oh well.. many thanks to all for your responses... Frances

 

[Matthew Lock]

Some virus checker/security/privacy software packages like some
versions of Norton completely block the browser sending the referrer
too.