Referrer & index.php

[Steven]

If you add Commentics to an index.php file then it can usually be accessed by two different URLs:

1. domain.com/
2. domain.com/index.php

This will be an issue when trying to submit a comment as you may be banned for 'incorrect referrer'.

The following is the solution for Commentics v1.1:

Find this function in comments/includes/functions/processor.php (line 1145):

PHP Code:

function clean_url ($url) { //cleans up a URL
    
    $url = strtolower($url); //convert to lowercase
    
    if (stripos($url, "?") !== false) { //remove any parameters
        $parameter = substr($url, stripos($url, "?"));
        $url = str_ireplace($parameter, "", $url);
    }
    
    $url = urldecode($url); //decode any special characters
    
    return $url; //return cleaned URL
    
} //end of clean-url function 


Replace with:

PHP Code:

function clean_url ($url) { //cleans up a URL
    
    $url = strtolower($url); //convert to lowercase
    
    if (stripos($url, "?") !== false) { //remove any parameters
        $parameter = substr($url, stripos($url, "?"));
        $url = str_ireplace($parameter, "", $url);
    }
    
    $url = str_ireplace("index.php", "", $url); //remove index.php if there
    
    $url = urldecode($url); //decode any special characters
    
    return $url; //return cleaned URL
    
} //end of clean-url function 


The Commentics v1.1 download will be updated shortly to include this fix.

[Static]

I'm not sure removing index.php from the header is the best solution. In the extremely rare case that the user decides something else to be the default filename in a directory, this won't work.

[Steven]

Okay I acknowledge the extremely rare case.