Re: [referrer] tag

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1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 11659
interpreted = N
texte = The [referrer] tag takes you back to the referring URL, but does not include all the form method POST data (which I assume your search page uses) which is not, technically, in the URL. The Back button in the browser is always the best way to back up. This not only takes you back to the proper page, but hopefully won't execute a search again and unecessarily burden the server. If you want to pass the search information through to the page and build up a link that re-executes the search (and simulates taking them back) you can do so by accessing the form varaibles. Depending upon the size of your search form this may be fairly easy or quite difficult.John.>I am trying to use the referrer tag to go back to a search results page, >but it doesn't seem to work. When I check the link it creates, all it >is is http://blah.com/results.tmpl$search with nothing else, so I >naturally get the error, Must specify database. The referrer works >fine when the link to the page that the referrer is on is not from a >search results page. > >John >-- >John S. Winningham >WebWright Inc. >john@webwrightinc.com >http://www.webwrightinc.com/ John A. Hill, V.P. Marketing ********************************* Pacific Coast Software * Home of the Web's best 11770 Bernardo Plaza Ct. #462 * Catalog and Merchant software San Diego, CA 92128 * http://www.smithmicro.com Phone: 619-675-1106 Fax: 675-0372 ********************************* Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Webcatalog-firesite and [referrer] tag (grichter@panavise.com (Gary Richter) 1997)
  2. Re: [referrer] tag (John Hill 1997)
  3. [referrer] tag (John S. Winningham 1997)
The [referrer] tag takes you back to the referring URL, but does not include all the form method POST data (which I assume your search page uses) which is not, technically, in the URL. The Back button in the browser is always the best way to back up. This not only takes you back to the proper page, but hopefully won't execute a search again and unecessarily burden the server. If you want to pass the search information through to the page and build up a link that re-executes the search (and simulates taking them back) you can do so by accessing the form varaibles. Depending upon the size of your search form this may be fairly easy or quite difficult.John.>I am trying to use the referrer tag to go back to a search results page, >but it doesn't seem to work. When I check the link it creates, all it >is is http://blah.com/results.tmpl$search with nothing else, so I >naturally get the error, Must specify database. The referrer works >fine when the link to the page that the referrer is on is not from a >search results page. > >John >-- >John S. Winningham >WebWright Inc. >john@webwrightinc.com >http://www.webwrightinc.com/ John A. Hill, V.P. Marketing ********************************* Pacific Coast Software * Home of the Web's best 11770 Bernardo Plaza Ct. #462 * Catalog and Merchant software San Diego, CA 92128 * http://www.smithmicro.com Phone: 619-675-1106 Fax: 675-0372 ********************************* John Hill

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