On Oct 6, 10:32 pm, Scot Hacker <shac...@birdhouse.org> wrote: > We have enabled the option to have 404 requests automatically emailed > to admins. It works well, but sometimes we get strange reports like > this: > > > Referrer:http://ourdomain.edu/forums/software/ > > Requested URL: /forums/software/ > > User agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0) > > IP address: 94.29.103.134 > > What's strange about it is that the referring > URLhttp://ourdomain.edu/forums/software/ > *does not exist* - we removed it more than a year ago. So I can see > why the requested URL is 404, but don't understand how a non-existent > URL can be considered to be the referrer. Is this evidence of some > kind of bot activity that fakes the referrer? > > Anyone seeing anything similar? > > Scot
Yes, there are all sorts of bots around, and the referrer is easy to fake - it's just an HTTP header. I quite frequently get reports with referrers that have never even existed on my site. -- DR. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
