On 11/26/05, Gene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry about that. This is an area that I'm still learning about (one of > many). Learning question: Why referrer spam? What benefit could anyone > derive from it? Is there anything on the web about it? (I'll google around.)
Googling for "referer spam" and "google page rank" will fill you in. (Note that "referer" is deliberately misspelled because of an error in the http specification.) In short, google ranks pages in part by how many links to them it can find on the web. Since many people post summaries of their referer logs on their websites, accessing a site with a fake referer can create a link from a websites statistics page to the attackers page, thereby increasing its rank in google. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
