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baburao113
baburao113

Reputation: 815

Detect redirected visitor

Here is the scenario:

Visitor of Page1.php is being redirected with JavaScript to Page2.php

Is there a way to know that visitor which lands on Page2.php is a redirected visitor by monitoring Page2.php if I don't use any sessions and variables at all in any language?

Without Doing/Using:

I'm asking this because I don't want other sites to detect that I have redirected users to their website.

I just want to know the possibility.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 305

Answers (3)

Ray
Ray

Reputation: 41428

Set a javascript cookie on the initial page when you do the redirect.

On the new page, check to see if the cookie is set, then delete it.

Upvotes: 1

Rémi Breton
Rémi Breton

Reputation: 4259

If you don't want to use server-side languages, your only alternative is JavaScript. You could redirect to Page2.php?redirected=true and use the following code to GET the redirected variable on Page2.php.

var $_GET = {};

document.location.search.replace(/\??(?:([^=]+)=([^&]*)&?)/g, function () {
    function decode(s) {
        return decodeURIComponent(s.split("+").join(" "));
    }

    $_GET[decode(arguments[1])] = decode(arguments[2]);
});

if($_GET['redirected']){
   // Redirected from Page1.php!
}

Source: how to get GET and POST variables with JQuery?

Upvotes: 1

No Results Found
No Results Found

Reputation: 102745

Just set a flag in the query string when you redirect (append the query string to your redirect location):

Page2.php?redirect=1

Or if you need the referring page:

Page2.php?referer=Page1.php

Then check with $_GET['referer']

You might be able to read the $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], but I personally tend to avoid it because it doesn't always contain what you think it should.

Upvotes: 1

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