How to get the URL of the page which redirected to our site ?

[Vinodh Sa]

Hi All,
I have a small question here. My problem is to fetch the URL of the page which redirected to our site. Suppose, say there is a site www.abc.com, which has a link to www.xyz.com. Andif any one clicks on that link in the abc's site, then it will re-direct to xyz. But without directly getting any inputs from abc, how can the site xyz fetch the url of abc(the site which re-directed to xyz).

Is there any way to do this ?

Note : Both sites are deployed in totally different servers.

[sudhir nim]

You can obtain that value from the Referer header

request.getHeader("Referer")

[Vinodh Sa]

sudhir nim wrote:You can obtain that value from the Referer header

request.getHeader("Referer")

Thanks Sudhir !!!
I will try the same and will revert you.....

[Bear Bibeault]

Be aware that this header may not always be set.

[Vinodh Sa]

Bear Bibeault wrote:Be aware that this header may not always be set.

Hi Bibeault,

Is there any other possible way to achieve the same, which is more reliable ? Because i would need a more reliable approach.

[Bear Bibeault]

No, afraid not. The most reliable way is for the redirecting site to provide you with that info. Failing that, there is no 100% guaranteed means.

[Vinodh Sa]

Bear Bibeault wrote:No, afraid not. The most reliable way is for the redirecting site to provide you with that info. Failing that, there is no 100% guaranteed means.

Ok... But currently that redirecting site cannot provide me that info. So i have to go with the above approach only, even though its not 100% reliable. Later i will change my approach after getting the info from the redirecting site.

But THANKS anyway Bibeault