Comments on: Denying non-local referrers http://blog.niceperson.org/2005/02/01/denying-non-local-referrers/ Making it up as I go along. Mon, 07 Feb 2011 18:34:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: jlv http://blog.niceperson.org/2005/02/01/denying-non-local-referrers/comment-page-1/#comment-537 jlv Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.niceperson.org/wordpress/2005/02/01/denying-non-local-referrers/#comment-537 So will this stop browsers that have referring turned off, like I just did with Firefox, and I think some Internet security programs do (Norton) by default on windows machines? Mildly curious where you are hosting (at home?) that you can get the sys admin to modify the setup like that for you. Hmm it makes it through the previewer, so here goes.... So will this stop browsers that have referring turned off, like I just did with Firefox, and I think some Internet security programs do (Norton) by default on windows machines? Mildly curious where you are hosting (at home?) that you can get the sys admin to modify the setup like that for you. Hmm it makes it through the previewer, so here goes....

]]> By: Laurabelle http://blog.niceperson.org/2005/02/01/denying-non-local-referrers/comment-page-1/#comment-538 Laurabelle Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.niceperson.org/wordpress/2005/02/01/denying-non-local-referrers/#comment-538 No, it won't stop browsers that don't show a referrer because it gives the benefit of the doubt when there's no referrer. That's the first line of the code (^$, blank match). I don't mind giving the benefit of the doubt, because what I care about right now is blocking referrer spam. If referrer spammers dropped the referrer in order to pass my block, that would be pretty pointless, wouldn't it? If my code were blocking your browser, you wouldn't see any images on my site (including the background image), and you wouldn't even get to compose a comment at all. As for where I'm hosting, see <a href="http://www.beehost.net">Beehost.net</a>. The sysadmin is my ex-boyfriend. :-) No, it won't stop browsers that don't show a referrer because it gives the benefit of the doubt when there's no referrer. That's the first line of the code (^$, blank match). I don't mind giving the benefit of the doubt, because what I care about right now is blocking referrer spam. If referrer spammers dropped the referrer in order to pass my block, that would be pretty pointless, wouldn't it?

If my code were blocking your browser, you wouldn't see any images on my site (including the background image), and you wouldn't even get to compose a comment at all.

As for where I'm hosting, see Beehost.net. The sysadmin is my ex-boyfriend. :-)

]]> By: jlv http://blog.niceperson.org/2005/02/01/denying-non-local-referrers/comment-page-1/#comment-539 jlv Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.niceperson.org/wordpress/2005/02/01/denying-non-local-referrers/#comment-539 This is spam from a php script This is spam from a php script

]]> By: jlv http://blog.niceperson.org/2005/02/01/denying-non-local-referrers/comment-page-1/#comment-540 jlv Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.niceperson.org/wordpress/2005/02/01/denying-non-local-referrers/#comment-540 Hmm, I didn't think that would work... I thought for a minute there that this might solve a similar sort of problem I'm dealing with. Go ahead and delete both of these if you want. Hmm, I didn't think that would work... I thought for a minute there that this might solve a similar sort of problem I'm dealing with.

Go ahead and delete both of these if you want.

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