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Hi all, I am getting the occasional member who cannot post for due to a bad referrer. Sometimes it allows them and other times it doesn't, but the intermitent ones I think may have been cookie related because I see them posting and do not hear them complaining about not being able to. However, I have one member who has posted a few times, but from his work machine cannot at all... he keeps getting killed in the check_refer function: <br /> // ####################################################################### <br /> // Check_refer <br /> // ####################################################################### <br /> function check_refer($Cat="") {<br /><br /> global $config,$ubbt_lang;<br /> $valid = 0; <br /> $referers = split("\|",$config['referer']);<br /> for ($i=0; $i <= (sizeof($referers)-1); $i++) {<br /> if (stristr(find_environmental('HTTP_REFERER'),$referers[$i])) {<br /> $valid++;<br /> }<br /> }<br /> if (!$valid) {<br /> $this -> not_right($ubbt_lang['NOT_VALID'],$Cat);<br /> }<br /> }<br />I wrote a little test to see what his referrer was, and viola... blank. After some research on this in the PHP manual site, I find that checking the HTTP_REFERRER is not always viable since some servers will not reveal that info. So, I added a quick patch for this use to check for his static IP address like this: <br /> // ####################################################################### <br /> // Check_refer <br /> // ####################################################################### <br /> function check_refer($Cat="") {<br /><br /> global $config,$ubbt_lang;<br /> $valid = 0; <br /> $referers = split("\|",$config['referer']);<br /> for ($i=0; $i <= (sizeof($referers)-1); $i++) {<br /> if (stristr(find_environmental('HTTP_REFERER'),$referers[$i])) {<br /> $valid++;<br /> }<br /> }<br /> if (find_environmental('REMOTE_ADDRESS') == "xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx") {<br /> $valid++;<br /> }<br /> if (!$valid) {<br /> $this -> not_right($ubbt_lang['NOT_VALID'],$Cat);<br /> }<br /> }<br />He still cannot post and get the ubbt_lang['NOT_VALID'] = "The host you are trying to send the input from is not a valid host."; message... Why??? Is there anything I can do to get this guy posting consistently??? Thanks!!
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I type Like navaho
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Most work computers are behind a firewall. Firewall software and/or hardware blocks the referer. Norton/Windows XP "out of the box" used to block the referer. Instructions to adjust that are here: Browser Problems
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Network Address Translation -firewalls mask the addresses behind them by replacing the source address with the address of the firewall. If you put the IP address of the firewall that he's behind into your script then it might work 
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Thanks, DLT... would this be a different IP than the one I am getting from the REMOTE_ADDRESS env. var?
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If you are "seeing" the address at your web server, then it's the IP address of the firewall. Keep in mind that some ISPs / companies use multiple firewalls for load balancing, and since HTTP is a "connection less" protocol you could see all the firewall IPs during a single page request. You might have better luck expanding your check to the first three octets of the IP address.
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Everytime this user logs in though he has the same IP... is that just coincidence or expected?
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