HTTP_REFERER Not Existing

[cjqp]

I'm trying to make a statistics script and I can't seem to get the HTTP_REFERER ServerVariable to work.
I've enumerated all the variables and it doens't seem to exist.
I've searched the net a bit and found that IE6 seems to have a problem with this...although none of the help articles posted have helped.
Upon further evaluation it doesn't work with the latest Netscape either.

Any help would be much appreciated,
cjqp

[MartinSmith]

Do you have Norton Personal Firewall as this blocks it?

[cjqp]

Ah, yes I do.
I did a lot more research on this yesterday...meant to edit my post but vbforums was having database problems at the time.
Now at least I know how to tell if Norton has blocked it (HTTP_WEFERER existance) so I can keep track of all blocked refererals anyway.

Any idea on how to decrypt the WEFERER string?

cjqp

[MartinSmith]

No I didn't know about HTTP_WEFERER!

Doesn't look hopeful from this post though...

http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum10/3875.htm

[cjqp]

No it doesn't....I doubt I'll be able to decrypt it. What I'm doing now is trying to detect the HTTP_REFERER value...if it doens't exist I check for HTTP_WEFERER value, it that exists I say the referer was "*DISABLED*", thus I know that user had Norton block it.

Thanks for your input!
cjqp