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This is somewhat off-topic, but I know some other people on this list have similar services that may be being abused. I noticed in the logs for my XML checker numerous, regular, entries like this: tide74.microsoft.com - - [24/Aug/1999:10:17:46 +0100] "GET /%7Erichard/xml- check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftracker.clicktrade.com%2Ftracker%2Ftracker.dll%3F to%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.callback4u.com%2F%27%26ad%3D73100.0%26lp%3D221944 HTTP/1.0" 200 417 What seems to be happening is that someone is using the checker to fetch advertising pages which they presumably get paid for accesses to. I've mailed abuse@m... and abuse@c..., but have had only pro forma replies from Microsoft and nothing from Clicktrade. I'll be adding some filtering to my cgi script; other people with web pages that fetch arbitrary URLs may want to do the same. -- Richard xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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