Rails - Mar 2006 - Newbie Question: How can I access the referer

Just wondering if and how I can access the referer from the controller.
Thanks in advance

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Give this a try:

$HTTP["referer"]

That should work,,,

Chris

On 3/24/06, Alexander <maccman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just wondering if and how I can access the referer from the controller.
> Thanks in advance
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or in your controller you could use

request_uri  -- may need to use @request.request_uri

and a whold lot of others

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionController/AbstractRequest.html#M000153

On 3/24/06, Chris Korhonen <ckorhonen@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Give this a try:
>
> $HTTP["referer"]
>
> That should work,,,
>
> Chris
>
> On 3/24/06, Alexander <maccman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Just wondering if and how I can access the referer from the
controller.
> > Thanks in advance
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How would I redirect to the referer?

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Alexander wrote:
> How would I redirect to the referer?
Sorry,
redirect_to :back
Works now. Thanks

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