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Getting Referers

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 5:59 pm
by canad1an
I need to get the referer of a page 2 times ago.

Here is a mental visual:


[{page1}] - user views a page
v
v
[{page2}] - user views another page
v
v
[{script}] - the script runs and I need to get the url for {page1}



I only know how to get the referer of page2, and not page1. Is it even possible to retrieve the url of page1 through php?

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:01 pm
by feyd
Nope, and certainly not reliable either.

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:03 pm
by canad1an
thanks for the fast reply. I'm attempting to make a myspace tracker and it's proving even more difficult since javascript isn't allowed... Silly myspace though, there's ways around that ;-)

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 6:31 pm
by jayshields
You can follow people's page views if it's within your own site, we've discussed that before. If that's what you're after have a quick search.

Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:07 pm
by canad1an
Nope, I'm attempting to create a third party script that runs on myspace via html/other means and will send enough data back to my servers for parsing. But that is proving difficult thus far. I have been able to get a referer. But the referer only contains data about my profile. You would have to know a little about myspace to understand what information I need, and how it's decrypted.