how to check if page has been loaded via URL forwarding

[BillyT]

Hi there

 

let's say I have a page called

 

www.mydomain.com/mypage.php

 

In mypage.php, how can I check if the page is being loaded via the url forwarding that most domain registrars provide?  ie if someone has registered

 

www.theirdomain.com

 

and pointed it at my page above, how can I tell?  All the php and javascript code I have tried just return mydomain.com

 

I hope that makes sense

 

Thanks in advance

[revraz]

I would think the referer would be set.

 

$ref=@$HTTP_REFERER;

 

echo "Referrer of this page  = $ref ";

 

Maybe it's blank if they typed it directly, give it a try.

 

[BillyT]

thanks for the reply.  I'm not sure if this would be adequate though, as there will be many times that users will follow a link to mydomain.com/mypage.php so the referrer would be set to another domain there as well.  Is that correct?

 

thanks again

[revraz]

Yep, but that is what you asked for.

[BillyT]

no I need to know if the page was loaded via URL forwarding as opposed to someone clicking a regular link

[BillyT]

still looking for a way to know if a page has been loaded via URL forwarding - any ideas?

 

Thanks in advance

[haku]

There is no way to differentiate how the user came from another URL. It will appear the same to your browser whether they were forwarded, or clicked through.

 

Actually, you could manually check each of the URLs that are coming into your site and see what happens.

[ShiloVir]

on one page make a MD5 checksum, and when u load a form u gotta check that MD5 and make sure it is equal to the previous one set. u gotta make the MD5 change each time the page is changed. when the browser is closed the MD5 expires. if u leave the page the MD5 changes. make sure the form is checking for the MD5 somewhere and you should be fine

[BillyT]

thanks for the replies.  Haku I have manually checked some links and found a couple of people using URL forwarding to make

 

mydomain.com/mypage.php

 

look like

 

theirdomain.com

 

My question is, can I put some javascript or php on mypage.php to see whether or not the domain in the url is equal to mydomain.com?  As I mentioned in my first post, everything I have tried still returns mydomain.com even though in the browser it says theirdomain.com.

 

Thanks again