Send URL referrer through contact form

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I'm going off this: How do I get the referrer URL in an ASP.NET MVC action?

It works. I am recieving a URL when my form is submitted, but it's the same URL the contact form is on. I'm guessing when I hit submit, it thinks the previous page is the contact page. I'd like to find out the page the user was on BEFORE the contact form page.

This is what I have:

sb.Append("<p>Referrer URL: " + Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_REFERER"] + "</p>");

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 13 '16 at 19:24

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You could store the Referer in a hidden field in the form:

<input type="hidden" name="referer" value="<%=Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_REFERER"] %>" />

answered Apr 13 '16 at 19:24

Sebastian Brand

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it sent the actual string "". Is that because I'm using Razor/C#? – Christopher Northcutt Apr 13 '16 at 19:41
@ChristopherNorthcutt To convert this to something like your original example, it would be: `sb.Append("");` – Jack A. Apr 13 '16 at 20:02
@JackA. I just want to send the text of the URL though not the entire input form. Right now I have this in the controller: sb.Append("
Referrer URL: " + Request["referer"] + "
"); and this in the .cshtml file: – Christopher Northcutt Apr 13 '16 at 20:14

Send URL referrer through contact form

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