Nicholas Kushmerick:
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>When an HTML page is rendered, the browser might spawn additional requests
>to the server (images, frames, style sheets, applets, ...). Within HTTP,
>can the server reliably distinguish such "browser-generated" requests from
>actual user requests (ie, when a user clicks on a link)?
No, there is no reliable way to do this in HTTP.
Examining the 'referer' HTTP request header field could offer an
unreliable way: you will have to experiment a bit. I'm not quite sure
what the different browsers send in the 'referer' of inlined content:
the URI of the enclosing page or the URI of the page referring to the
enclosing page.
Koen.
