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How to differentiate whether user is coming from FB app or the standalone app

I've a rails application that acts as a Facebook app as well as a standalone app. Now I need to differentiate from where the user is accessing the app.

What's the easiest and sure-shot way to do this?

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The http Referer [sic] field.

msw  2010-07-15 15:16:45

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