in reply to Re: Back Button (referring URL\?)
in thread Back Button (referring URL\?)

Thanks for the response. The page I'm trying to link back to is also on my site. Maybe my isp strips that, I don't know. Do I need to use jscript? Also, why don't I see this thread on seekers?

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Re: Re: Re: Back Button (referring URL\?)
by dws (Chancellor) on Jun 14, 2002 at 23:51 UTC
    I was guessing that what you were trying to do was create a link back to the previous page (the page that "referred" you to the current page). $ENV{HTTP_REFERER} isn't reliable for this in general, due to some proxies and some older browsers. But it sounds from your original post as though you're using a CGI to create pages. So I'm unclear on what, exactly, you're trying to do. Are you trying to create a link back to the page from outside of your side that originally referred a session to your site? Or to some static page on your site?

      Its image gallery scripts, which does most everything wrong; But it does work. there's a find function, which produces a page full of form enabled dumbnails, which you can click on to get to another script generated page, and need to get back from. http://vader.inow.com/~mrk Try it out. Select the hippie_stuff and jpg for a managable amount of content, otherwise your bandwidth and cpu may be busy rendering >1mb of goofy pictures. But if yu've never been to burningman, here's your chance. The scripts need lots of work. I'm planning to implement cgi::pretty for secure cgi and net:something? for real thumbs. Merlyn listed a package to use, but the link went out of date.