Re: HTTP_REFERER problem

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Author: JD Austin
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: HTTP_REFERER problem
Require registration and login; then they can't be anonymous.

-- JD Austin
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On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 5:51 PM, Daniel Stasinski <>
wrote:

> In the last couple of days, someone has been pasting the address of my
> disabilities support group site on what appears to be a pedophile chat
> room.
>
> At various times throughout the day, there is a sudden influx of pervs
> coming into our chat room all at once. I attempted to use server
> var $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] to check where the links are coming from and
> my own logging code is showing that field either empty or sometimes "
> www.google.com" with no query terms in the url. I thought maybe they
> were using Incognito mode but when I finally accessed the apache logs, the
> full refer entries were there. They're just not getting passed to php as
> near as I can tell.
>
> Is there some reason why php is not getting the full referer header?
>
> Daniel
>
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