On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 22:11:23 +0100, Bernie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve wrote:
>> The referer which Arachne reports is the last site Arachne
>> visited, regardless of whether the two sites are linked or
>> connected in anyway.
> So does Netscape (3.x does it anyway AFAICR). IMHO the "referer" string is
> completly useless since it can mean anything at all, and therefor servers
> that trust it when allowing access to files are just plain stupid. In case
> you haven't come across it some servers that offer "free" (read: ad-filled)
> personal webpages doesn't allow for external links to go to the pages. In
> one way this would be good, but it often makes them unusable without
> Internet Explorer since that browser doesn't do it the same way as Netscape
> does.
> Of course fixing this would be nice, but it's hardly anything that Michael
> or anyone else should put much effort into IMHO regardless that it might
> not take much time to add it (atleast I don't think it would).
> //Bernie
On that point:
I've found a very easy way of "fooling" most such sites.
Try this link directly and see what happens.
http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/comports.zip
OK, now try any of the links in the attached html file.
(after clearing the "No outside links" error page from your cache)
This is the line that does the "fooling"
<base href="http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/">
--
Glenn
(your friendly neighborhood compu-nerd)
http://arachne.cz/
http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/
http://freedos-32.sourceforge.net/
Title: Dirctory of http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/
Directory of /id/glenndoom/
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Filesize Date Time Filename
21,405 Jan 14,2001 21:15 cropped.zbm
21,041 Oct 11,2000 14:20 cdc.zip
1,057 Oct 11,2000 14:20 comports.zip
33,724 Oct 11,2000 14:20 d2c10ar1.zip
2,363 Oct 11,2000 14:20 dialpc.txt
3,334 Oct 11,2000 14:20 ds9.mid
314 Oct 11,2000 14:20 embedtest.html
322 Nov 4,2000 00:06 emu387.htm
22,710 Nov 4,2000 00:03 emu387.zip
12,528 Oct 11,2000 14:20 icomp.htm
13,223 Oct 11,2000 14:20 memory.txt
22,672 Dec 7,2000 18:28 mymemory.zip
4,126 Oct 11,2000 14:20 qvplay.html
23,116 Oct 11,2000 14:20 qv-dos.txt
918,423 Oct 11,2000 14:20 qv-dos.zip
59,527 Nov 13,2000 22:41 reality.jpg
32,334 Oct 11,2000 14:20 swf2cnm.zip
4,037 Nov 4,2000 17:11 test.txt
44,053 Oct 11,2000 14:20 tsx-32.txt
16,377 Oct 11,2000 14:20 wwwmangr.zip
118,677 Nov 23,2000 19:53 xtpro.zip
15,136 Dec 11,2000 21:47 800x600.zip
92,602 Dec 13,2000 23:23 my-scrns.zip
