Nothing *forces* the browser to give you an accurate referrer. The
ncint:openpanel one is certainly some kind of local Javascript utility or
something of that nature. The freeserve one could ... well, I don't have a
ready answer for that one. The fantomaster one looks like an advertisement
for "fantomBrowser", to be perfectly honest.
I've seen jokers put in referrers to porn sites sometimes. I suppose if
you're looking for cheap entertainment, that could be funny. Most of the
time, people fixated on privacy will just not give you a referrer at all.
Hope that helped. Sometimes there just aren't happy answers.
Michael
ColinB wrote:
> I am finding several entries in my server log which carry referrer
> fields which do not contain links to our site. For example:
>
> webcachehp6a.cache.pol.co.uk - - [25/Mar/2001:16:38:01 +0100] "GET
> /restaurant/list.htm HTTP/1.1" 200 39772
> "http://www.freeserve.com/plus" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0;
> Windows 98; DigExt; WHSmith Online V1.12)"
>
> ymir.contextbase.com - - [21/Mar/2001:06:15:03 +0000] "GET
> /midland-red/ HTTP/1.0" 200 8986
> "http://fantomaster.com/faregister.html" "Mozilla/4.0 (fantomBrowser)"
>
> Both of these referrer pages do not contain links to our site, so how
> do they appear in the log as "reffering" pages? If a user happened to
> be viewing one of these pages and then *manually* typed-in a URL for
> our site, would that be counted as a referring page?
>
> Also I often get one or two entries like this:
>
> ppp-11b-130.3com.telinco.net - - [25/Mar/2001:19:06:21 +0100] "GET /
> HTTP/1.0" 200 13934 "ncint:openpanel?name=url" "Mozilla/3.04
> (compatible; NCBrowser/2.35; ANTFresco/2.17; RISC OS-NC 5.13
> Laz1UK1309)"
>
> where the referring page is "ncint:openpanel?name=url". Any idea what
> is causing this?
>
> Thanks
>
> Colin
>
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