How to differentiate between Http Get request

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Is there any way to identify whether incoming http request is coming because of
1 User Entered the specified Url
or
2. It was requested as part of html Document, say request for *.js file from document(page).

Posted 8-Oct-15 1:59am

scud.corsair

Updated 8-Oct-15 2:00am

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Krunal Rohit 8-Oct-15 8:06am

if (HttpContext.Current.Request.HttpMethod == "GET")
{
//GET action
}

like this ?

-KR

scud.corsair 8-Oct-15 8:17am

Off course we can do that,
but my question is how can we differentiate between GET request.

Say a separate GET request will be sent to "image.jpg" if it is referenced inside a web page.

Howeever we can also enter the complete Url of "image.jpg" , and it will be a GET request.

How can I differentiate between these two?

ZurdoDev 8-Oct-15 8:32am

Reply to the comment so that the user is notified.

F-ES Sitecore 8-Oct-15 8:50am

Look at the request's referrerurl. If you navigate direct to a url it will have no referrer, if the image has been embedded in a page the referrer will be the url of the parent page.

scud.corsair 8-Oct-15 9:19am

mate , you saved my day

ZurdoDev 8-Oct-15 8:32am

I don't think you can. You can try using something like Fiddler to see what the request looks like but I doubt there is anyway to do this.

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Dave Kreskowiak · Answer 1 · 2015-10-08T02:40:00

Solution 1

No. There is no difference between the two requests that will tell you if a user typed the URL or not.

The only way you can tell that is if you added a parameter to the request string made by your HTML or javascript code, something that the user won't type.

Posted 8-Oct-15 2:40am

Dave Kreskowiak