Wednesday, April 25, 2012

how to get referrer from a redirected url

I have an url



domain.com/a



which redirects to



domain.com/controller/action/a .



How do I get the referrer (i.e domain.com/a) in my action for domain.com/controller/action/a ?



One option was to add the referring domain as a parameter .



domain.com/controller/action/a?referral=domain.com/a .



Is there a way to get the referrer without passing old referrer as a parameter. Like we would get from **request.referrer**. request.referrer doesn't seem to work with redirected urls.



I am using Ruby on Rails for my development.





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