Thanks for the feedback everyone. I guess you just have to take
referrers with a pinch of salt! If it's possible to set a referrer by
javascript then I could imagine sites being keen to promote new product
pages or sister sites in this way. And of course there's the "robots in
disguise" (... now where have I heard that before!)
Thanks again,
Colin
--- Aengus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can confirm that I have seen this problem when analyzing log files
> for
> an intranet, and found fairly significant numbers of clearly bogus
> referrers from outside the Intranet. I think I posted something on
> the
> list about it at the time, but I didn't look into the issue too
> deeply.
>
> One suggestion I would make would be to do a REFINCLUDE on one of the
> bogus referrers that crops up a lot, and check the browser report -
> are
> you seeing both Netscape and IE browsers, or just IE, and if IE, are
> you
> seeing 4.x and 5.x, or just 4.x?#
>
> (We were using a standard desktop on our intranet with IE4.x, so I
> couldn't do this test, but if you are seeing this bogus referrer
> problem
> on an open site that has traffic from Netscape and IE, and from IE4.x
> and
> IE5.x, you might be at least able to narrow down the sound of the
> problem
> if it's a browser bug).
>
> Aengus
>
>
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