Thank you for your answer,
but i have at least one question:
what do you mean for "strong consistency checking to avoid security issue"?
Thanks in advance,
Cristian Marchionni
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From: Aengus Lawlor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 4:56 PM
Subject: Re: [analog-help] Recording link to another server
> Cristian Marchionni
>
> >i have i simple question for you i would record a link to another
> >internal server it's not a virtual host but a real secondary server
> >i have a page with an image that's is the link to that server and the
> >html line looks like this " < A HREF="http://www.secondwww.com/ ecc "
> >How i can configure analog to record it Should i modify the apache
> >logformat?
> >Should i use a different syntax to write the page ?
>
> If I request a page from www.serverA.com, and there is a HREF in that
> page that links to www.serverB.net, I don't have to tell ServerA if I
> visit ServerB. In fact, there isn't any way for modern browsers to tell
> ServerA that they are going to ServerB. I can tell ServerB when I get
> there that I just came from ServerA, but the reverse doesn't work.
>
> If you really have to know this information, you can create a "jumpto"
> script on your server, and call this script with the target URL as a
> parameter. This will cause the browser to visit ServerA, and ServerA
> will redirect the user to ServerB. Now you have a record of who asked
> for that redirection.
>
> <A HREF="/scripts/jumpto?www.ServerB.org">
>
> (Note that you should use strong consistency checking in any such
> script, to avoid potential security issues).
>
> You can see an example of this technique at www.news.com in the "More
> news from around the Web" section at the bottom.
>
> Aengus
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