On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, ColinB wrote:
> Thanks Michael, I guess referrer fields could be used as 'adverts', as
> you say. If particular referrers were occuring quite often I suppose
> that I could use REFREFEXCLUDE and REFSITEEXCLUDE to exclude them from
> the report. If I understand the Analog manual correctly, REFEXCLUDE
> would exclude the offending logfile lines from *all* or the reports (a
> bit like grep-ing out the lines from the logfile before running
> analog), which is not what I want.
>
Exactly right.
> It seems a bit strange that the offending lines in the file imply a
> REAL commercial browser (IE5, Netscape) was being used, rather than a
> hacker's special. I don't recall there being any settings in commercial
> browsers to set a value for the referrer. How would someone set a
> specific referrer value in a commercial browser?
>
Oh, you mean you believed what was reported in the browser field???
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