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From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
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Subject: Re: wwwcount and netscape 402b (communicator)
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"
To: jdn@qiv.com (Jay D. Nelson)
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 09:14:34 +0100 (MET)
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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