In article <at********************************@4ax.com>,
jo*@jacklane.demon.co.uk enlightened us with...
Hi
I'm trying to do something simple: find out which page had the link
which got me to the current page. I am using window.referrer, in IE6,
but it never has anything but blank in it. The scenario is that the
user must go though a sign on page to get to the goodies. If they go
direct, they get bumped to login:
Referer is never a good thing for relying on, as you've noticed. Anyone
with a modicum of programming knowledge or script kiddie tools can spoof
it, too.
The normal way of doing logins is to have the user enter their username
and password in a form, then have the form POST to a page that checks
the login and password server-side. If it is correct, it sets a cookie
or session variable that all other pages that need to know that the user
has logged in can check.
If you don't need all that, just set a cookie on the login page and
check it on the next. This is insecure as hell. :)
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