Joshua Slive wrote:
Sorry about that. This is an area that I'm still learning about (one of many). Learning question: Why referrer spam? What benefit could anyone derive from it? Is there anything on the web about it? (I'll google around.)On 11/24/05, Gene <listmail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi All: I've been getting a lot of hits on my server lately that look like they might be some kind of exploit. Could someone be probing to see if my server will proxy? Could it BE proxying without my knowledge? The resukt code of 200 is disturbing. The log entries look like these (and there are lots of them):The only thing unusual about those entries are the referer. The request is a perfectly normal GET of your home page. That leads me to believe that these are simply referer-spam, trying to pollute your logs (perhaps posted online) and hence get links that will be counted by google. If so, you just did them a huge favor by posting their sites to this list, where your message will be picked up by a dozen or so web archives and boost their google ranks. Oh well. Other than that, I'd simply ignore them and make sure that you don't post anything from your referer logs on your website.
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