Hey,

Is is possible to get the full URL
('http://www.sender-domain.com/links/list.html')

from where a user was sent to my site
(www.my-domain.com/controller/action) e.g. by clicking on a link? (I
read about something called a 'request' object, I don't know what it is
or does, is that what I'm looking for?

I'm very new to Rails so I'd appreciate any help!!

Thanks,
Gustav

e-mail: gustav@psychohistorian.org

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gustav paul wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Is is possible to get the full URL
> ('http://www.sender-domain.com/links/list.html')
>
> from where a user was sent to my site
> (www.my-domain.com/controller/action) e.g. by clicking on a link? (I
> read about something called a 'request' object, I don't know what it is
> or does, is that what I'm looking for?
It should be available in the controller as
@request.env["HTTP_REFERER"].

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Alex

Unfortunately, HTTP_REFERER is useless nowadays. There is no stable method
of getting that information.

Bob Silva
http://www.railtie.net/


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[mailto:rails-bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org] On Behalf Of Alex Young
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 9:16 AM
To: rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
Subject: Re: [Rails] How do I get the the full URL of an incoming request

gustav paul wrote:
> Hey,
>
> Is is possible to get the full URL
> ('http://www.sender-domain.com/links/list.html')
>
> from where a user was sent to my site
> (www.my-domain.com/controller/action) e.g. by clicking on a link? (I
> read about something called a 'request' object, I don't know what it is
> or does, is that what I'm looking for?
It should be available in the controller as
@request.env["HTTP_REFERER"].

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Confirmed!

In a simple controller action, I put:
@referringPageURL = @request.env["HTTP_REFERER"]

In the corresponding view I entered:
referring page = <%= @referringPageURL %>

To confirm, I added a standard HTML link to the page in the
/public/index.html file, and I also cloned that file as
/public/index2.html and also followed the link from there.

Note that request.env["HTTP_REFERER"] also seems to work.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Base.html hints that
to get the IP address where the request came from, you can use
request.env["REMOTE_IP"] in the controller.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,
Dominique


Alex Young wrote:
> gustav paul wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> Is is possible to get the full URL
>> ('http://www.sender-domain.com/links/list.html')
>>
>> from where a user was sent to my site
>> (www.my-domain.com/controller/action) e.g. by clicking on a link? (I
>> read about something called a 'request' object, I don't know what it is
>> or does, is that what I'm looking for?
> It should be available in the controller as
> @request.env["HTTP_REFERER"].


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request.remote_ip() works better as it handles proxied IPs also.

Again, HTTP_REFERER is not dependable. Some clients send it some don't.

Bob Silva
http://www.railtie.net/



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[mailto:rails-bounces@lists.rubyonrails.org] On Behalf Of Dominique Plante
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 9:51 AM
To: rails@lists.rubyonrails.org
Subject: [Rails] Re: How do I get the the full URL of an incoming request

Confirmed!

In a simple controller action, I put:
@referringPageURL = @request.env["HTTP_REFERER"]

In the corresponding view I entered:
referring page = <%= @referringPageURL %>

To confirm, I added a standard HTML link to the page in the
/public/index.html file, and I also cloned that file as
/public/index2.html and also followed the link from there.

Note that request.env["HTTP_REFERER"] also seems to work.

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/Base.html hints that
to get the IP address where the request came from, you can use
request.env["REMOTE_IP"] in the controller.

Hope this helps!

Thanks,
Dominique


Alex Young wrote:
> gustav paul wrote:
>> Hey,
>>
>> Is is possible to get the full URL
>> ('http://www.sender-domain.com/links/list.html')
>>
>> from where a user was sent to my site
>> (www.my-domain.com/controller/action) e.g. by clicking on a link? (I
>> read about something called a 'request' object, I don't know what it is
>> or does, is that what I'm looking for?
> It should be available in the controller as
> @request.env["HTTP_REFERER"].


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