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Check values of window.history
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24/08/1999 16:27:22
 
 
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24/08/1999 16:16:41
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Visual FoxPro
Category:
Internet applications
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00257245
Message ID:
00257291
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>>>How do you check the value of the history file. We want to know the page we came from without resorting to storing that in a session variable.
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>>You want to check this from the server? The server is not allowed access to the browser's history file, but the previous URL is usually built in to each hit as a CGI variable. In ASP, the Request object holds this information, in WWWC, you can get it with wwCGI.GetPreviousURL... aren't you using Drumbeat? Does drumbeat give you access to ASP's Request object?
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>Yes, but I wasn't sure where to find that info.

As soon as I posted this, I went and looked at the ASP help file to help me remember the name of the CGI var that holds the referring link, and I couldn't find it. I'm glad Tim remembered the name of the server variable...
Erik Moore
Clientelligence
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