Nevermind, I figured it out. Our site is HTTPS and the link that the customer gave us is HTTP... according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer, "If a website is accessed from a HTTP Secure connection and a link points to a non-secure connection, then the referrer header is not sent". Thanks so much for pointing me in the right direction!by jmadtech - Nginx Mailing List - English
well that was my originally assumption, but I verified that in all 3 versions of my browser (firefox, IE and Chrome) that I'm set to pass referer information to the site... and they're still not getting it from me. When I manually execute the same URL call from the command line with a manually provided referer, it works fine.by jmadtech - Nginx Mailing List - English
Hey all, I've got an interesting problem that I can't seem to trace. On my site (which is running Nginx 0.6.24), I have a link to a customer's external URL. When a user clicks that link and goes to the customer's site, the HTTP_REFERER is not being passed in the header by Nginx. I've verified that the problem is not on their end by using the curl command and manually passing a referrer... thby jmadtech - Nginx Mailing List - English
Hey all, I'm currently using Nginx & HAProxy with a Rails Application on the backend (using mongrels). I've configured my Nginx config file with a custom 50x error page: error_page 500 502 503 /500.html; location = /500.html { internal; } If I shut my mongrels off and try to access the page, I get the default 503 error page that comes with Nginx, not my custom 500.htmlby jmadtech - Nginx Mailing List - English