Question

I have built a cakephp app that needs the user to login or register(for new users), when he tries to download the file. And I use to javascript to redirect users to login page, and once they login I want users directed back to the download page they were on.

I am using

$this->redirect($this->referer());

works fine in chrome and FF. In IE it does not work. It redirects user back to home page.
document.referrer is blank.

I understand that in IE that document.referrer is populated only when user clicks on the link.

Is there a workaround or a hack to fix this(javascript or php). I appreciate any help.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I don’t know if this is applicable to you but most versions of IE also has a long-standing issue when using a confirm dialog. As sibidiba says, referer is unreliable – I’d pass the download page URL as a querystring param in your javascript redirect to login.