[prog] setting referer checking on in php

[April]

I think it's a misleading error.  HTTP_REFERER can be spoofed or left 
unset by a browser, so it's unlikely that not having that data would 
make the script fail silently. Would you be willing to send the 
formmail.php file?  It could be failing for any number of reasons, but 
my guess is it's because register_globals went from on to off (likely if 
you upgraded PHP from pre-4.2).

If it DID stop working because of register_globals getting turned on, 
that probably means the script is insecure and could be used by third 
parties to send spam from your server.  So don't just turn on 
register_globals to make it work.. fix the script.

Nicki Handy wrote:
> Hi- I've just upgraded a mac to Tiger and also upgraded the mail server. 
> I copied the old php.ini over into the new settings but for some reason 
> formmail.php is not working. I didn't set it up, one of the programmers 
> I work with uses it. The error I get in the web logs says
> [PHPFormMail] HTTP_REFERER checking is turned off.
> 
> So, I think this would make it fail and thus, no mail from the form. But 
> I went into php.ini and the variable for referer is set to blank. I 
> tried changing it to 1 and "on" but neither worked. Is there another way 
> to set that? Or is that a misleading error and I do in fact have it 
> turned on? I restarted the server after changing it.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> Nicki
> 
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