uh can't you STILL get the referring page neways thru CGI, if so wots the
point?
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Damaged Cybernetics
On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, Lance D. Braud wrote:
> Dan Petramala wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 1 Mar 1996 11:16:06 -0800, you wrote:
> >
> > >"THE WORLD WIDE WEB SECURITY FAQ (Version 1.2.0, February 28 1996)"
> > >by Lincoln D. Stein <lstein@genome.wi.mit.edu>
> > >- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
> >
> > 2)grab the previous page they are coming from (aka referring page)
> >
> > I would quickly add code to my page to use such features, since these items
> > allow me to :
>
> > 3) keep track of referring pages so that I can contact the admins there to
> > notify/thank them for the posting....
> >
>
> I think it would be great to do this also, but knowing the previous page may
> be a problem in that it maybe a private URL that isn't supposed to be known.
> But that site should have security on it anyway (passwd), so as long as you
> can't grab their cache I don't see a problem. Paranoid Security people (like
> the author of that announcement) would see a problem anyway and these are the
> people you have to get around, eh? <sigh>
>
> Lance D. Braud
> lbraud@advtel.net
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