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Feb 14, 2004, 2:06 AM
Philip_Clark
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Passing http:// address through to another page
I'm wanting to do the following:

Down the bottom of each page have a link called "Email this page to a friend".

How can I pass the address of the current page through to the next page with the form?

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Feb 14, 2004, 2:19 AM
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You using a HTML page? If using a Perl script, you could use;

scripts.cgi?page=$ENV{REQUEST_URI}

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Feb 14, 2004, 2:21 AM
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Cheers for the response.

I'll be using html pages.

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Feb 14, 2004, 2:24 AM
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With SSI enabled?

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Feb 14, 2004, 2:26 AM
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Yep.

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Feb 14, 2004, 2:28 AM
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You could use something like this to grab the URL of the page you are on;

<!--#echo var="REQUEST_URI" -->


... see here for more details on SSI:

http://home.snafu.de/...ssi/index.shtml#echo

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Feb 14, 2004, 2:29 AM
Philip_Clark
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Problem is mate, I need it for the previous page I was on. Any ideas?

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Feb 14, 2004, 2:31 AM
Philip_Clark
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To give you some idea, I'm wanting to get it working the same way as here:

http://usa.cricinfo.com/...CC_CHAMPIONS_TROPHY/

see the bottom of the left menu for "Email to a friend".

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Feb 14, 2004, 2:31 AM
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<!--#echo var="HTTP_REFERER" -->

or

$ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}

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Feb 14, 2004, 2:38 AM
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Looks like they are just picking up the URL to refer through, in the actual Perl script. They would be using something like;

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my $url = $ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'} || "http://www.yoursite.com";

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Feb 14, 2004, 2:40 AM
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In Reply To:
<!--#echo var="HTTP_REFERER" -->

or

$ENV{'HTTP_REFERER'}

Cheers


Thanks Andy Smile - exactly what I was after. Just couldn't quite remember what it was Cool

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