Posted by Tyno Gendo on 06/28/07 18:17

ojorus wrote:
> "ZeldorBlat" <zeldorblat@gmail.com> skrev i melding
> news:1182953857.665568.320550@u2g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
>> On Jun 27, 10:11 am, "ojorus" <ojo...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>> I'm using $_SERVER['http_referer'] to see which site the visitors on my
>>> site
>>> is coming from. It works OK, but as we all now, not all sites give
>>> http_referer a value, i.e. miniclip.com.
>>> What I DON'T understand is how my web-statistics program (awstats) can
>>> tell
>>> me that a lot of the visitors on my site comes from miniclip.com. How can
>>> awstats know, and http_referer don't?
>>>
>>> // ojorus
>> It's not the website that decides whether or not to provide the
>> referer (sic). The browser determines whether or not to send it.
>>
> ah, sorry. my mistake! :-)
>
>

it might also do reverse DNS lookups on IPs in the logs?

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