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Troy - 25 Jun 2004 19:35 GMT

Hi all,

I have a hit counter that is utilized through a page on our webserver
to track statistics on our clients internally. However, on the
hitcounter page i do a server side re-direct on our server to the new
URL. This does not however pass the HTTP_REFERER variable to our
clients homepage as the user didn't actually click an anchor tag with an
HREF to the specific URL. We *need* to do this - so what we want to do
is still use the internal stats we keep, but some how pass the
HTTP_REFERER info via javascript or something to our clients site? From
my research so far - this does not seem possible. I've even tested with
a META refresh, javascritp document.location.href redirect and so on.
All of them will not pass the HTTP_REFERER unless the user actually
clicks the <a> tag with the exact URL in it. Any insight on this would
be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Regards,

Troy

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ABejo@ChronosSystems.com - 28 Jun 2004 08:24 GMT

> Hi all,
>
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> URL. This does not however pass the HTTP_REFERER variable to our
> clients homepage as the user didn't actually click an anchor tag with an

> HREF to the specific URL. We *need* to do this - so what we want to do
> is still use the internal stats we keep, but some how pass the
> HTTP_REFERER info via javascript or something to our clients site? From

> my research so far - this does not seem possible. I've even tested with

> a META refresh, javascritp document.location.href redirect and so on.
> All of them will not pass the HTTP_REFERER unless the user actually
> clicks the <a> tag with the exact URL in it. Any insight on this would
> be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

What if you did something like this:

<html><head>
<script event="onreadystatechange" for="document" language="javascript">
if(document.readyState == 'complete') {
redirectLink.click();
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<a href="other_page.asp">a</a>
</body>

I haven't tried it though, it's just an idea.

Gus

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Agoston Bejo - 28 Jun 2004 10:09 GMT

> > Hi all,
> >
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>
> Gus

Yes, now I've tried it out, it actually works, but the example is wrong,
sorry:
<a href="other_page.asp" id="redirectLink">a</a>

This way HTTP_REFERER will contain the URL of the page where the above link
resides.

Gus

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