[10477] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: CGIs to manage backlink information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ka-Ping Yee)
Mon Dec 16 23:05:36 1996
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 22:57:07 -0500
From: Ka-Ping Yee <kryee@wheat.uwaterloo.ca>
To: rivero@sol.unizar.es, www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
> After my experience with the script to capture REFERRER information
> (WWW pages pointing to pages on my server), I took a bit more
> of time to be able both to capture and serve such "backlinks"
> within each html page.
Hi there. I've had such a system operating on my web-sites
for a year or two now. My system both collects the Referer:
fields and confirms all the links, actually downloading each
page to see if it really contains the link. (Many browsers
seem to emit spurious Referer: fields -- for example, to the
last document shown even when the user is typing in a new URL
entirely.) It checks for mirrored pages and maintains a notion
of the reliability level of each backlink.
The results are always interesting. You can try visiting my
pages at http://www.lfw.org/. The word "backlinks" at the
bottom of each page is linked to the list of backlinks. (I
grew tired of dealing with two auxiliary files, so now it's
just a single file containing both the access stats and the
backlinks.)
Ping
http://www.lfw.org/math/ brings math to the Web as easy as <se>?pi?</se>
