Over the past few days I’ve had a few visitors to my web site that have http://www.disney.com as the page referrer. And they are coming into several different pages of the site. I am 99% sure that the disney.com home page is not linking to my site. Can anyone think of any reason why someone would be falsifying the page referrer when they visit a site? The only thing I can think of is they are trying to mask their scraping or spidering of the site. Here’s a sample record:
ip.add.re.ss - - [18/Jul/2006:07:55:00 -0400] “GET /path-here HTTP/1.1″ 200 18572 “http://www.disney.com/” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; Windows XP 5.1)”
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Posted under Technology, Web-design
This post was written by Michael Clark on July 21, 2006
check this out http://spamhuntress.com/wiki/Somer to the answer of your question.
Myself had the same odd referrers. The same IP add in the URL i gave you above. :p