Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 09:14:34 +0100 (MET) From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: jdn@qiv.com (Jay D. Nelson) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: wwwcount and netscape 402b (communicator) Message-ID: <199703070814.JAA13907@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970306173459.520A-100000@acp.qiv.com> from "Jay D. Nelson" at "Mar 6, 97 05:36:48 pm"
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> As I recall, if the user agent doesn't report itself via the > HTTP_USER_AGENT header (or something like that) the default behavior of > wwwcount is to report the 8's you are seeing. Yes, HTTP_REFERER. visiting http://www.fccc.edu/users/muquit/ shows the same behaviour and there is a FAQ item on these 888,888 (BTW. muquit seems to have a mail answering automaton that send you an automatic mail pointing to the FAQ :-) The answer can be found in item 3 of: http://www.fccc.edu/users/muquit/Count.html#freqa It's a problem of the browser (netscape 4.0n2 in this case) One can change this strict behaviour by setting the strict flag to 0 in /usr/local/etc/www/Counter/conf/count.cfg > > There is a configuration option you can set when you compile wwwcount that > turns this off. > > -- Jay > > On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > > -> > ->Anyone familar with wwwcount and CGI? > -> > ->I have a little www test page (under construction) > ->(http:/mozart.physik.rwth-aachen.de) > ->and the counter I have in there worked fine with > ->netscape 3.01. Yesterday I installed Netscape 4.0b2 > ->and the counter always shows 888888 > -> > ->Known problem? > ->Does anyone see the counter right (in the range 140)? > -> > ->-- > ->Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de > -> > > -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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