anti — Tue, 11 May 1999 22:41:00 +0000

Hi,

the HTTP_REFERER gives you the name of the "calling" document.

So if you try to build your stats via a "cgi-image" (try http://webhome.nu/cgi-bin/wh.pl?wmf ) you'll get the URL of the page linking the image.

If your "index.html" is a CGI you've got a pretty good chance to get the real refering-url.

Otherwise you could try to extract the last-urls via JavaScript from the browser.
But that'll be a JavaScript question.

ciao
Anti

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Tue, 11 May 1999 16:16:00 +0000

<-- split the the string on /

every http url will have this form:

http://domain.topleveldomain/path

the text between the 2nd and 4rd / is always your domain.

There is a bug in that script though.

URLs have this general form protocol:path
Examples:
mailto:mu@intertainment.org
file:///c:/path
someProtocol:^^^&&%$#@are
These are all possible values of the http referrer and especially the 1st two are likely to appear in your log file.

So, you should check first whether the URL contains http and then make the split.

Later,

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Dass — Mon, 10 May 1999 23:08:00 +0000

Thanks for the help popus!

Im just wondering when doing
$referer = $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'};
(@parts)= split(/\//,$referer);
$domain = $parts[2];

What 2 parts are actually being split?
and since im not too familiar with the split *thingy* , what does the /\// 'stand for'

Thanks!

Mon, 10 May 1999 00:45:00 +0000

Sorry ... it should be $parts[2] instead of $parts[3].

Good luck

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Mon, 10 May 1999 00:43:00 +0000

Hi,

The HTTP_REFERER enviromental variable retrives the full url of the refering document (not just the domain).

You can still split up this variable to ge just the domain.

I'm not pretty sure, but I think it would be something like this:

quote:$referer = $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'};
(@parts)= split(/\//,$referer);
$domain = $parts[3];

Now you should have the domain stored in the $domain variable.

Hope this helps you.

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Dass — Sun, 09 May 1999 23:50:00 +0000

Is the
HTTP_REFERER
what im looking for? is it the variable that gives the domain the person came from before the site?

Sun, 09 May 1999 23:28:00 +0000

maybe you shoud try this little script:

print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";
print <<EndOfHTML;
<html><head><title>Print Environment</title></head>
<body>
EndOfHTML
;

foreach $key (sort(keys %ENV)) {
print "$key = $ENV{$key}<br>\n";
}

print "</body></html>";

call it with your browser and it'll give you a list of all environment variables, just take out what you need....