Fellow Monks,
I have the following snippet in a script which is intended to make sure that only pages on our site may utilize the script. It came to my attention this morning that someone had received the Bad Referer message while (they say) they were moving from one page to another within our site. We have no 3rd level domains, and the site cannot be accessed by proxy (no www) at all, and the pages have been tested hundreds of times without this coming up. Anyone see a flaw in the code or have an idea for a scenario to cause this. I should note that I have only just altered the error message to request mail and plan to log errors but I do not have the referer infomation that triggered this problem.
TIA
jg
my $good_url = 'http://www.thesite.org/';
my $also_good = 'https://www.thesite.org';

my $referer = $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'};
if ( $referer !~ /^$good_url/ && $referer !~ /^$also_good/) {
    print $q->header,start_html,h2("Bad Referer."), "If you receive th
+is error please ",
    a( {-href=>"mailto:bug\@nolaflash.com?Subject=New+Member+Bug!+$ref
+erer"},"email us"),".";exit;
}

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In reply to Referer check within domain problem by jerrygarciuh

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