Hi,

Not sure if this belongs here or in the perl forum...

I'm using several cgi scripts which use $ENV{HTTP_REFERER} in some part of the code. I recently discovered that after installing Norton's Personal Firewall that these scripts stopped working.

Having read somewhere that there was a conflict between this firewall and environment variables, I tried to access the scripts after disabling the firewall, and sure enough, everything worked fine.

Other than trying to find alternate scripts to replace the ones I'm using; or warn users to temporarily disable the firewall if it's installed and if they want to access the script; does anyone have any suggestions on how to circumvent this problem?

Thanks,
ronzo

You'll have to come up with another option to work around the problem. You'll need some way to compensate for "blank" or "missing" information.

See if these links from another BBS give you any ideas:

http://bbs.bignosebird.com/viewtopic.php?t=1218

http://bbs.bignosebird.com/viewtopic.php?t=1115


----- Kinda somewhat related, maybe it will give you an idea. -------

It's like what we used to have to do with table background colors for clients using NS2x browers.

<TD BGCOLOR="#00000"><FONT COLOR="#FFFFF">Hello</FONT><FONT COLOR="#00000">Hello</FONT></TD>

Anyone with 3x browser would see white letters on a black background while 2x users would see black letters on a white background.

Thanks

I'll check out those those links to see if they might help.

ronzo