On 01 May 2020, at 15:41, Rich Bowen wrote:
> That's what we call referrer spam. I've never really understood what the
> point was, but they make requests with bogus information in the referral
> field, which then ends up in your log files. Somehow this makes them feel
> good about themselves.
That's what we call referrer spam. I've never really understood what the
point was, but they make requests with bogus information in the referral
field, which then ends up in your log files. Somehow this makes them feel
good about themselves.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referrer_spam
Rich
Seeing a Loy of lines like this in the logs (mixed in with all the attemepts to
accesses wordprex/admin-login types of URLS, of course)
46.118.227.27 - - [01/May/2020:15:10:37 -0600] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 302 213
"https://french-poetry.com/; "Mozilla/4.7 (compatible; OffByOne; Windows 2000)
Webster
