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'homeland.fbi.gov' visits dozens of Weblogs
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2003 01:03:30 -0500
------ Forwarded Message From: Glenn Fleishman <glenn () glennf com> Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 21:57:55 -0800 To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: Re: [IP] 'homeland.fbi.gov' visits dozens of Weblogs On 4/4/03 9:48 PM, "Dave Farber" <dave () farber net> wrote:
66.12.154.134 - - [02/Apr/2003:19:21:10 -0800] "GET /2002/12/16.html HTTP/1.0" 200 26489 "http://homeland.fbi.gov/Watchlists/suspect/view.jsp?record=895754" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5)"
The referring URL can be anything: it's not verified in any way by any system. Many firewall products allow you to type in a value that is fed out as part of your Web file request, or not send a referring URL. What's even more interesting is that the referring URL doesn't show you anything except where a browser has been, not from where the request is being made. So this is a joke by someone. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Glenn Fleishman, Unsolicited Pundit: read my work at http://glennf.com check out my new book, The Wireless Networking Starter Kit, a guide to Wi-Fi at home, office, and roaming : <http://wireless-starter-kit.com> freelance reporter for The New York Times, Macworld, InfoWorld, et al. read all the wireless networking news at <http://wi-fi.weblogger.com/> Macintosh columnist, The Seattle Times http://seattletimes.com/ptech/ ------ End of Forwarded Message ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as interesting-people () lists elistx com To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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