[80322] in Cypherpunks
Re: referers and W3 (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hal Finney)
Mon May 19 02:08:20 1997
Date: Sun, 18 May 1997 22:29:40 -0700
From: Hal Finney <hal@rain.org>
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Hal Finney <hal@rain.org>
Eric Murray, <ericm@lne.com>, writes, regarding Referer spoofing:
> What would make sense to use, other than sending
> "http://this/is/a/bogus/referrer/sent/to/mess/up/your/stats"?
> How about sending the current URL as Referrer?
One practical idea would be to set up the config file so that whenever
URL X is referenced, specified URL Y is sent as the referer. This could
be useful for accessing web sites which won't show you information unless
(or if) they see a certain value in the referer field.
Hal
