Name of Previous Page

David C

I have an ASP.Net web page that I want to be able to retrieve the name of
the previous page as I am coming to this page from 3 different aspx pages
via PostBackURL string. I looked at the PreviousPage but it has no "Name"
property that I could find. Can anyone help? Thanks.

David

Dec 10 '07 #1

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David C

Nevermind. I remembered Request.UrlReferrer

David
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>I have an ASP.Net web page that I want to be able to retrieve the name of
the previous page as I am coming to this page from 3 different aspx pages
via PostBackURL string. I looked at the PreviousPage but it has no "Name"
property that I could find. Can anyone help? Thanks.

David

Dec 10 '07 #2

Mark Rae [MVP]

"David C" <dl*****@lifetimeinc.comwrote in message
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Nevermind. I remembered Request.UrlReferrer

Don't rely on this 100%, especially if your site is on the public Internet,
as more and more ISPs are stripping it off HTML headers...
--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

Dec 10 '07 #3

David C

Thanks Mark. What are the alternatives?

David
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"David C" <dl*****@lifetimeinc.comwrote in message
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>Nevermind. I remembered Request.UrlReferrer

Don't rely on this 100%, especially if your site is on the public
Internet, as more and more ISPs are stripping it off HTML headers...
--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
http://www.markrae.net

Dec 10 '07 #4

Mark Rae [MVP]

"David C" <dl*****@lifetimeinc.comwrote in message
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Thanks Mark. What are the alternatives?

Session variables would probably be the simplest...
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Dec 10 '07 #5

Barrie Wilson

"Mark Rae [MVP]" <ma**@markNOSPAMrae.netwrote in message
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"David C" <dl*****@lifetimeinc.comwrote in message
news:O9*************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>Nevermind. I remembered Request.UrlReferrer

Don't rely on this 100%, especially if your site is on the public
Internet, as more and more ISPs are stripping it off HTML headers...

WTF? really? why are they doing this?

Dec 10 '07 #6

Michael Nemtsev [MVP]

Hello Barrie,

just reduce unnecessary info for optimization

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miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it" (c) Michelangelo
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>"David C" <dl*****@lifetimeinc.comwrote in message
news:O9*************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>>Nevermind. I remembered Request.UrlReferrer

Don't rely on this 100%, especially if your site is on the public
Internet, as more and more ISPs are stripping it off HTML headers...

BWWTF? really? why are they doing this?
BW>

Dec 10 '07 #7

Mark Rae [MVP]

"Barrie Wilson" <bw*****@nowhere.comwrote in message
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"Mark Rae [MVP]" <ma**@markNOSPAMrae.netwrote in message
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>"David C" <dl*****@lifetimeinc.comwrote in message
news:O9*************@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...

>>Nevermind. I remembered Request.UrlReferrer

>Don't rely on this 100%, especially if your site is on the public
Internet, as more and more ISPs are stripping it off HTML headers...

WTF? really? why are they doing this?

Yes.
--
Mark Rae
ASP.NET MVP
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Dec 10 '07 #8

George Ter-Saakov

Do not use Request.UrlReferrer

Sometimes when referred urls are emails (or simply populated with garbage)
Request.UrlReferrer will blow up since it's trying to return URI object.

instead use Response.ServerVariables["HTTP_REFERER"]; it will return a
string
George.
"David C" <dl*****@lifetimeinc.comwrote in message
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Nevermind. I remembered Request.UrlReferrer

David
"David C" <dl*****@lifetimeinc.comwrote in message
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>>I have an ASP.Net web page that I want to be able to retrieve the name of
the previous page as I am coming to this page from 3 different aspx pages
via PostBackURL string. I looked at the PreviousPage but it has no "Name"
property that I could find. Can anyone help? Thanks.

David

Dec 10 '07 #9

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