Re: [cobalt-developers] AWSTATS Problem

[Steve Bonisteel <steveb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:39 PM 10/28/2003, fswerren@xxxxxxxxxxxx  wrote:

> managed to get several porn sites listed in the stats.....
> I hate to limit it because someone is having fun at my expense


Are you talking about porn-sounding sites in referring domains and 
porn-related keywords in search-engine terms?

*If* that's the case, it's probably not someone having fun at your 
expense, but simply a result of the data visiting browsers were 
regurgitating on your server.

Your hosting customers may be finding out more about their visitors 
than they want to know ... but it's unlikely AWSTATS is being 
manipulated.

In the case of a referring DOMAINS, it's very easy for a browser to 
report one domain as a referrer when, in fact, it didn't actually 
refer. (May have been a last-visit, for example.)

Regards,
SRB



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