[WEB4LIB] Oddball Netscape 4 header

[James Cayz]

Thomas,

Anonymizers and Proxies can (and often do) change the referring URL to
odd strings, like [unknown origin].  So a website operator not only 
doesn't get a valid IP address, but also no information about where the
user just was.

Oh, WRT specs - I don't think anyone listens to specs anymore :-(

James

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On Thu, 9 May 2002, Thomas Dowling wrote:

>We log referers, and I'm seeing a very small number of hits from Netscape 
>4.7x with a grossly invalid* referer of "[unknown origin]".  Just to 
>satisfy my curiosity, can anyone tell me how to configure Netscape to do this?
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>(*If present, the referer header must be an absolute or relative URI 
>according to the HTTP specs.)
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>Thomas Dowling
>OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
>tdowling at ohiolink.edu
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