"ColinB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>From what I remember of the bogus referrers when I noticed this problem,
it clearly wasn't deliberate - there were referrers pointing to individual
pages of online editions of newspapers and magazines, and referrers
pointing to personal home pages. I'm fairly certain that the problem is
browsers sending incorrect referrer information, probably when a page is
loaded from a bookmark, or when there are multiple windows open, and you
get the referrer for the page in the other window.
(I'm also fairly certain that if it was a simple javascript trick, it
would be widespread enough to be common knowledge).
Aengus
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