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Glen Mazza closed ROL-704.
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Resolution: Won't Fix
The hit counter indeed relies on honesty but if someone wants to write a wget
loop to hit his own website 1000's of times, so be it. Google Analytics today
is probably much more accurate. However, your proposed solution of adding
unique ID's to GET requests seems to be more concerned with circumventing
caching in order to get a *higher*, not a *lower* hit count. Circumventing
caching is not a good idea from a performance perspective.
> Improve hit tracker, the current one can be misused
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> Key: ROL-704
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ROL-704
> Project: Roller
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Referers and Trackbacks
> Affects Versions: 1.0.1
> Environment: All platforms.
> Reporter: Roman Strobl
> Assignee: Roller Unassigned
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> Currently it is quite easy to exploit the hit tracker. Users can generate for
> themselves lots of hits which makes hit statistics unreliable. See my blog
> for the technique used to exploit the hit tracker:
> http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/roumen/20050401#blog_stats_not_accurate_and
> The hit tracker should be improved to be resistent to this kind of actions.
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