document.referrer does not work in popup window

[dinpinto]

Hi,

How do I find out the referral page (URL of the page that sent you to the current page) using javascript, when you're in a popup window?

My situation is like this:
Once the popup is opened, it loads a page eg. page_1.htm

page_1.htm leads to page_2.htm.

In page_2.htm I need to get the URL of the page that lead the user to page_2.htm. So the referall URL in this case should be page_1.htm

How do I do this? I tried but it dosent work. Any idea why it wont work and how I can get it to work?

Thanx

[peterbe]

That has nothing to do with popups does it?

How about something like this...

page_1.htm:
<a href="page_2.htm" onclick="location.href=this.href+'?referrer='+encodeURIComponent(document.referrer); return false">

Then in page_2.htm you can parse the location object to find out where they came from when they go to page_1.htm.