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My wife was wondering why 60% of her web site traffic was showing as “direct entry” - she couldn’t imagine all of these visitors were typing in her web site URL from scratch. At the same time, I was working with a client that was depending on the ‘referer‘ value for some calculations. And something wasn’t adding up to them. I couldn’t really find a good list of bad reasons for using referers, but I did find a whole lot of partial lists.
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from g1smd 52 days ago #
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Certain "internet security" products strip the referrer from all traffic. That's quite a large chunk of traffic that Norton screws around with.

The server can't strip the referrer when a 301 or 302 redirect happens. It is the browser that supplies the data, and just supplies the same data on the second request.

from pbarnhart 52 days ago #
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Actually the 301/302 stripping I meant as conditional removal - they may be removed by Apache for example and not available to the underlying PHP, Perl, or RoR scripting environments.


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