Allowing link only to be accessed from a specific page, not working on Microsoft edge.

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Hello,

I am trying to restrict access to one of my pages from one specific domain referrer.

This code I've tested works on chrome & firefox, however on microsoft edge I can't get it to work..

What I have tried:

<?php
$referer = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'];
$referer_parse = parse_url($referer);

if($referer_parse['host'] == "test.google.com" || $referer_parse['host'] == "www.test.google.com") {

} else {
header("Location: notallowed.php");
exit();
}
?>

Posted 28-Jun-18 12:28pm

Member 13891475

Updated 28-Jun-18 14:31pm

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Mohibur Rashid 28-Jun-18 19:48pm

what does print_r($_SERVER) shows?

Member 13891475 28-Jun-18 20:20pm

I apologise for taking so long to reply. Where do I add print_r($_SERVER)?

Member 13891475 28-Jun-18 20:32pm

Here:

noArray ( [PATH] => /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin [TEMP] => /tmp [TMP] => /tmp [TMPDIR] => /tmp [PWD] => / [HTTP_ACCEPT] => text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 [HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING] => gzip, deflate [HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE] => sv-SE,sv;q=0.8,en-US;q=0.5,en;q=0.3 [HTTP_CONNECTION] => close [CONTENT_LENGTH] => 0 [HTTP_COOKIE] => username=user; __tawkuuid=e::f.mydomain.com::l7pltwfr8UGzjW0ORFIDLqNKE6fOQE5avt18BwJazClUvT/4Rc/PTo2xWJjeljnh::2; PHPSESSID=rcapuicq3j2pqen78u11t4o0n2; TawkConnectionTime=0; rcksid=4aredCkFZEsedn5dJaEuSebSuCGpxMoU5bpbNg5xJ6RROutpSsCAEKFEyZASALDW; BLAZINGFAST-WEB-PROTECT=17d533b691c402288f6567244e567c15; __tawkuuid=e::domain.com::4eHAkuSTAOJL8qM/2PgckegdvKlEgdcnQa2fOeCzhfeoGlzrOHYu07bcOH9SvUIa::2 [HTTP_HOST] => f.mydomain.com [HTTP_USER_AGENT] => Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.140 Safari/537.36 Edge/17.17134 [HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR] => 1.2.3.4[HTTP_X_REAL_PROTECTED] => bf [HTTP_UPGRADE_INSECURE_REQUESTS] => 1 [UNIQUE_ID] => WzV8tmtL6Jc0QHYjkfLx2wAAAVM [SCRIPT_URL] => /page.php [SCRIPT_URI] => http://f.mydomain.com/page.php [SERVER_SIGNATURE] => [SERVER_SOFTWARE] => Apache [SERVER_NAME] => f.mydomain.com [SERVER_ADDR] => 1.1.1.1 [SERVER_PORT] => 80 [REMOTE_ADDR] => 1.2.3.4[DOCUMENT_ROOT] => /home/domain/f.mydomain.com [REQUEST_SCHEME] => http [CONTEXT_PREFIX] => [CONTEXT_DOCUMENT_ROOT] => /home/domain/f.mydomain.com [SERVER_ADMIN] => webmaster@f.mydomain.com [SCRIPT_FILENAME] => /home/domain/f.mydomain.com/page.php [REMOTE_PORT] => 6233 [SERVER_PROTOCOL] => HTTP/1.0 [REQUEST_METHOD] => GET [QUERY_STRING] => [REQUEST_URI] => /page.php [SCRIPT_NAME] => /page.php [PHP_SELF] => /page.php [REQUEST_TIME_FLOAT] => 1530231990.5849 [REQUEST_TIME] => 1530231990 )

Mohibur Rashid 28-Jun-18 21:26pm

in my case, it's visible

[HTTP_REFERER] => http://localhost:8081/

Member 13891475 28-Jun-18 22:10pm

What do you mean, I don't really understand?

The code works on chrome and firefox but not on edge or safari, not sure why honestly.

I've tried using .htaccess modifying and other php ways but no luck.

Did this work for you on edge?

Mohibur Rashid 28-Jun-18 22:54pm

Yes, in my case HTTP_REFERER in Edge is showing as well as it's also Showing IE. If you search on google you will notice many people are suggesting different approach then http_referer

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