Re: Automatic redirects on doorway pages?

From: Gabriel Zappia <gabrielz_at_linkme.com>
Date: Tue 12 Sep 2000 13:54:45 -0500

PHILIP MAK <mfraser_at_seas.gwu.edu> WROTE:
> I am thinking that this would be a reliable method of
> determining that. HOWEVER, it would be very trivial for
> the AltaVista spider to send a fake referring URL to
> trick my script, so I'm wondering if anyone has
> specific information about this.

TO WHICH JESSICA <jessica_at_divaslight.com> REPLIED:
> All the spiders and bots have particular names, if you
> correlate the hostname with the referal URL then you
> should be fine I would think.

Used to be true, but today stealth is the name of the
game. Not long ago I heard that one major spider (AV?)
was even loading images, and it basicly looked like a
browser.

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Received on Tue Sep 12 2000 - 13:54:45 CDT