Referrer key missing form os.environ dictionary?

Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick kwpolska at gmail.com
Wed Sep 25 10:01:34 EDT 2013


On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Νίκος <nikos.gr33k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello, i decided am ong other os.environ variables to also grab the
> 'HTTP_REFERER' fiel but when i try to run my script i was seeing a KeyError
> complaining that 'HTTP_REFERER' didnt exist.
>
> So, to see what existed in the os.environ dictionary i issues a print(
> os.environ ) to see all available keys and their values:

The Referer header is not mandatory by any means.  Your client
probably does not send it.

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