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Hello! (again)

I have a client that wants to implement this SMS system:

he has a web site, there is a page with info (scripts) and you can acces to them if you send a message through your movile phone to a number, then you will receive a pass to access the zone.

Ok, my work is the next:

I have to provide a formulary to enter the pass, that formulary will be executed in the SMS company (i have nothing to do with that) and they check the pass and send the user to my private page.

The problem comes when the people access to that page, if they know the URL the page they can acces just entering the URL and go there, what I did was to check the referer, but it's not working:

if ($SERVER["HTTP_REFERER"] == "http://www.site.com/form.php")

      {

          }

  else

      {

      header("Location:http://www.site.com/error");

            }

I added that to the private page, but it goes to the error page, It was working before, but I dunno why is not working now.

How can I print the Referer, so I know if the referer is the form page or any other?

OR.... Do you know a better way to implement this?

So wait you're supposed to restrict access based on a username/password validation done on another site?



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Nop, I just want the people to access if they come from "http://www.site.com/form.php"

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You're first code should work but you need to use the "_" underscore before SERVER

$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']

if that doesn't do it, the _SERVER variable is relatively new. So if you have an older version of php use the $HTTP_SERVER_VARS['HTTP_REFERER'] variable. This will work with newer versions as well even though it has deprecated.



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[This message has been edited by bitdamaged (edited 09-19-2002).]

Now works! thanks InI and Bitdamage ( I added the "_" )