Re: Block sites linking to my site

From: Jason Brown [MSFT] (i-brjaso_at_online.microsoft.com)
Date: 03/26/05 

Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 14:30:20 +1100

There's an IIS-compatible ISAPI filter called LeechBlocker which can go a
long way to blocking by referrer - and it comes with source. MSN search or
google will find it immediately if you search for 'leechblocker' 

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Jason Brown
Microsoft GTSC, IIS
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"Jeff Cochran" <jeff.nospam@zina.com> wrote in message 
news:425344d4.96116908@msnews.microsoft.com...
> 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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