{"id":21,"date":"2004-01-07T17:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-07T17:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/?p=55"},"modified":"2021-10-30T20:08:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-30T20:08:44","slug":"advertising-in-web-server-logs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/2004\/01\/advertising-in-web-server-logs\/","title":{"rendered":"Advertising in Web Server Logs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was checking out my web server statistics and I came across 5 or 6 lines in the referrer section that advertised sites that would never link to my web server.  I really hope this isn&#8217;t a new form of &#8220;SPAM&#8221; that will be used by advertising companies in the future.<\/p>\n<p>You would think that the number of people who actually look at their web server logs wouldn&#8217;t be large enough for companies to go through the trouble of faking a referrer.  Also, personally, I will be a lot more pissed off if things like this throw off my log statistics than I do when I get some SPAM in my inbox.  At least there are some reasonable ways to block most advertising email (I use a combination of SpamAssassin on the server and Apple&#8217;s Mail.app Client that is blocking about 99% of the SPAM I get now).  Then again, spammers never cease to amaze me in the hacks they put together just so people might see their ads.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I was checking out my web server statistics and I came across 5 or 6 lines in the referrer section that advertised sites that would never link to my web server. I really hope this isn&#8217;t a new form of &#8220;SPAM&#8221; that will be used by advertising companies in the future. You would think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.starcoder.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}