Bloody CGI Referrers!!

dragon2309

P.I Dragon
Hi, i am getting really REALLY annoyed with this. Heres the story.

I made a new form to submit certain credentials to an email address on my site. The problem is that the .cgi file that tells it all what to do and where to go uses the dreaded referrers. This basically checks to see what domain the form is being used on, and stops it if it has been stolen and used on a different domain to what it was designed for.

The thing about this is that it parses a small amount of info through the clients computer when the SUBMIT action is carried out. This information goes through the pc and back up to the server where it is validated, the problem with this is that shitty things like Norton IS 2004 + 2005 block the bloody thing, so the whole form returns a 404 error, because it lost the data because it was rejected/blocked by norton.

I know there is a way to stop the whole referrer thing but how?


I Really need your help with this, anyone at all. Even if its not directly elated to the problem, just little things to check etc.... PLEASE!!!!
 
yeh, ive allowed it on my test system, thats how i know that nortons at fault, but millions of clients arent going to be prepared to fiddle with setings to complete a relatively trivial task. I need to turn off referrers in the cgi script but dont know how, anyone??
 
dragon i dont quite get where the problem is, if you wrote the cgi script you must have put the referal code in there???
If you didn;t write the code then post it here and we'll see what needs commenting out
 
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