A lesson in how the internet works.
We found the SGForum using the HTTP referer ID that is sent by all
browsers when you visit our web site using a link that appears in
the SGForum.
Not sure what the HTTP referer ID is? See this W3.org
page page on the HTTP protocol.
As is the case for all web sites, this refereral information is
logged by our web server. Which is the Apache software running on BSD Unix in our
case.
The log information is written to a file. This is what is looks
like,
You can see that from this log that we know your IP address, where
you came from, what page on our site you wanted, what browser you
are using, which O/S you are running and a few other things.
Thus it was easy to find this forum talking about our
software.
I would like to note that all browsers and all web servers log this
information. It is not something special that we are doing, it is
the way the internet works.
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David
PassMark
