Re: FN-FORUM: Any way to detect where a user has been redirected from in PHP?

date posted 1st November 2007 14:08

Personally, I'd recommend using a session variable called something =20
like "redirected_from" - that gets added in before the redirect, and =20
can be quizzed by the login page.

Alex
http://www.ozbon.com



Quoting Ben Nolan [EMAIL REMOVED]

>
> Hiya,
>
> Throughout the site which got smooshed yesterday are a load of
> header('Location: blah'); redirects which point at the login page.
> Does anyone know of a way to detect the URL of the page which contains
> that line? HTTP_REFERER seems only ever to contain the page which
> pointed at the page which redirected you, rather than the page itself.
>
> I'm asking this 'cause I'd rather not rewrite all the references to
> Location: blah to include the calling URL in a get query. :/
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben.
>
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