Re: (new question on this) http referer

On 08-Apr-2004 John Nichel wrote: > Joe Szilagyi wrote: >> Just a follow up on this one--I've seen where consistently that >> $HTTP_REFERER will only show local referers, but not stuff from >> other >> sites/hostnames. This is on mod_php... any workaround for that? >> >> Regards, >> Joe > > The referrer is sent by the referring machine. If that machine isn't > setting it, you can't get it. If memory serves, I think I remember > someone claiming that this could also be blocked at a > firewall...don't > know if that's true or not though. Not a firewall. The 'Referer' is in the headers, that would mean the FW would have to edit the stream (~shudder~). A 'proxy' server on the other hand will re-write headers : mysql> select url from urls where url not like 'http%' limit 5; +----------------------------------------------------------+ | url | +----------------------------------------------------------+ | 1.0 TECH002 | | 1.1 wall:800 (squid/2.5.STABLE2) | | 1.0 px2nr (NetCache NetApp/5.5D1) | | 1.0 arnink[D4BB2507] (Traffic-Server/5.2.1-58896 [uSc ]) | | 1.1 ffm2-t6-1.mcbone.net:3228 (Squid/2.1.PATCH1) | +----------------------------------------------------------+ 5 rows in set (0.00 sec) FYI: mysql> select count(*) from urls; +----------+ | count(*) | +----------+ | 261511 | +----------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) mysql> select count(*) from urls where url not like 'http%'; +----------+ | count(*) | +----------+ | 69594 | +----------+ 1 row in set (0.38 sec) mysql> select 69594/ 261511; +---------------+ | 69594/ 261511 | +---------------+ | 0.27 | +---------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) So 27% of my hits are by proxy (for this site/month anyhow). Regards, -- Don Read dread@ispwest.net -- It's always darkest before the dawn. So if you are going to steal the neighbor's newspaper, that's the time to do it.