Re: Block sites linking to my site

From: Jeff Cochran (jeff.nospam_at_zina.com)
Date: 03/25/05

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    Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:06:42 GMT

    On Fri, 25 Mar 2005 08:41:03 -0800, "basin"
    <basin@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

    >We have a site that has a "sample request " form where future customers can
    >order sample of some of our paper. Well, apparenty some people found it and
    >posted it on sites such as freesamplesite.com and fatwallet.com. So we have
    >hundreds of orders for samples!!
    >
    >Is there any way we can block people coming from this link? I am
    >understanding that when a "freebie" addict clicks on that link, the ip
    >address in the log should be that person's IP....but our webtrends reporting
    >has no problem telling us that we are getting users from these domains.
    >Webtrends uses the iis logs to get that referrer address and domain,then put
    >it in a nice little report, but I cannot find it in the logs.
    >
    >Any ideas?? Thanks for any help!

    It's not a security issue, it's a programming one. Depending on the
    technology you use you can get the referrer as well. In ASP it's the
    HTTP_REFERER header in the Request.ServerVariables method.

    Jeff

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