Rogue Referral Reduction
December 1st, 2002Unxmaal describes a simple way to block referral spam.
Mmmmm - less filling!
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Unfortunately, it doesn’t work for most/all systems. Even though a spammer’s fake HTTP GET may be denied via .htaccess, the webserver will log the request anyway.
The only way to stop this is to use a http logfile analyser that either ignores bogus requests or allows you to manually filter based on IP or domain name.
This is why I’m switching from Weblog to Analog. http://unxmaal.com/analog/ for now.