Posted: 7/8/2009 8:27:26 AM EDT
| saw a poll today gun related and it was not hot and posters were advising to keep it cold why? |
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So the administrators of the site can't see where you were linked from, i.e. the HTTP "Referrer" field. If you go from a cold link (copy and paste into your browser), Referrer will be null.
I don't just play a Web administrator on the Internet. I've been doing it for more than 10 years professionally. 
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how is this so ?my ip address might be shown but how would the origin of the linkey is this a urbin myth? Here is the information contained in a typical Web server log. The "Fields:" line tells you what the data elements mean. Referrer, if present, is the URL of the referring page (the one with a hot link). I'm including just one record as an example (the word wrap makes it kind of hard to read, but you should be able to get the idea): #Software: Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0
#Version: 1.0 #Date: 2009-07-08 16:42:26 #Fields: date time s-sitename s-ip cs-method cs-uri-stem cs-uri-query s-port cs-username c-ip cs-version cs(User-Agent) cs(Cookie) cs(Referer) cs-host sc-status sc-substatus sc-win32-status sc-bytes cs-bytes time-taken 2009-07-08 16:42:26 W3SVC1 192.168.0.151 GET /Index.htm - 80 - 192.168.0.151 HTTP/1.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.2;+SV1;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322;+.NET+CLR+2.0.50727) - - 192.168.0.151 200 0 0 1815 414 390 They can even tell what browser you used. |
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Yup, :
When visiting a webpage, the referrer or referring page is the URL of the previous webpage from which a link was followed. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referrer (hot because it doesn't really matter for this) So if a poll linked from ar15.com see's a few thousand referrers from here, they might invalidate that block of data, since it looks like we're trying to load the poll a certain way. Same thing from before with links to DU, if a certain thread over there starts getting referrals from ar15.com, they know someone has linked that thread over here, and its best to stay anonymous for stuff like that. |
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how is this so ?my ip address might be shown but how would the origin of the linkey is this a urbin myth? No it's not an "urban" myth as you call it When I ran websites, I had tracking software and not onlyI could I see what country people were visiting from, but what websites they were coming from as well. Something useful when trying to market your website and see what's working and what's not. |
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but in reading the wiki link could not arfcom do some blocking thing? just asking Its not up to arfcom to block it, although there are ways, they are expensive (server resources). From the article: The referrer field is an optional part of the HTTP request sent by the browser program to the web server. Its a client/browser(firefox, IE, chrome, etc) side function, not part of the server that has the link you click on. The server on the receiving end though has the ability to use it for tracking, data mining, or security purposes. |
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how is this so ?my ip address might be shown but how would the origin of the linkey is this a urbin myth? 
That's mostly images, but links show up the same. For example, Calguns either direct linked to one of my pages, or someone snatched one of my pics, and it's been viewed 6 times. |