hello oh mighty powerful PerlMonks.... I seek your wisdom and guidance in a most difficult situation.

I have two websites on two separate servers/locations - we want to make one of them an extension to the other by only allowing visitors access to Site B if they've come from a link at Site A, otherwise they get a custom error page.

I have it all worked out fine, however, a problem has crept in. The link on Site A to Site B is from a secure connection, and apparently https does not send the variable $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}!!?? Is there a way around this, or might one of you expert priests of the highest order of perl have a better solution for me please?

I was thinking of tagging an identifier onto the end of the link string, but that could easily be faked unless I went with encrypt/salted string - but what a pain. There has to be an easier way! If there is, Im sure I'll discover it here.

*bows to the gods
Thank you, fathers,
Chris

In reply to Get Referral From SSL by caddmngr

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