[cobalt-users] Passing HTTP_REFERER to a custom 404 page?

["Jay Fesco" <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[This is a repost - anyone have any ideas? - Jay]

Gurus,

I've read through the archives on 404 as much as my patience would allow,
but I don't find a specific answer to my question.

I need to be able to find out exactly what someone typed to get to my custom
404 page.
I have updated /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf for the site in question, and I
have it properly going to my custom page, '404.asp'.

For the project at hand, I need to emulate a (non-existant) directory.  For
example, you type 'www.mydomain.com/fred'.  There is no 'fred' directory at
'mydomain', but by using 'fred', I can pull the appropriate record from a
table in MySQL and deliver a 'virtual' page.  This is intended to be a
hands-off database driven site, and I'd rather stay away from the FileSystem
object for this project.  SOOOOoooo...

I've tried to pull Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_REFERER"), but it comes
back blank after the redirect to 404.asp.  I pulled ALL_HTTP as well, but I
didn't see anything indicating that the 404.asp page had any idea of where
it came from (other than the Session variable and the Host).   And yes, I'm
using a relative reference (/404.asp, not http://www.mydomain.com/404.asp).
Any ideas or things I've missed?

Thanks!
Jay Fesco