[LINK] weird referral page

[Danny Yee]

Jan Whitaker wrote:
> I have just looked at my webstats and found a very weird referring URL:
> -- freeliveporno.org
> Not only that, there were FOUR hits from it!

This is referer spam.  Connecting clients can pass anything they like
in the referer field, and spammers know that people log referers --
and in some case put the logs online, complete with links back to
the top referring pages.

So spammers fake a whole pile of http requests with the domains they
are trying to promote as referers, hoping to get either automated
links or traffic from webmasters looking at their logs.  

These are not real requests, just automated spambots.

Danny.
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