"Jezsta Web Productions" <Please-use-our-contact-form@jezsta.com> wrote:

> "John Bokma" <john@castleamber.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns9821C5A4B4FA6castleamber@130.133.1.4...
>> "Peter" <petermcphee@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I am using the Meta Refresh attribute so I can keep a track of a few
>>> links that I am affiliated with.
>>
>> You mean that you send a visitor to a page that refreshes the visitor
>> to the affiliate?
>>
>> Don't do this.
>>
>> Use mod_rewrite to make 301 redirects.
>
> John, I can't see why the person would want to do that anyway. If the
> page is 301'ed or refreshed there doesn't seem to be a way to track
> right? With affiliates you have to track.

you can decide to 301 redirect

/affiliate/example.com/....

to http://example.com/....

since affiliate is on "your" site, you will see the request, even if
Apache redirects the visitor away to another site.

Example:

lj601042.inktomisearch.com "GET /messenger HTTP/1.0" 301 235 "-"
lj601042.inktomisearch.com "GET /messenger/ HTTP/1.0" 200 4488 "-"

slurp gets first /messenger which "doesn't exists", but Apache is
configured to 301 if it discovers a directory with that name to the
version with a trailing /.

Couldn't find a more exciting example in a few seconds.

Anyway, loading an access log in TextPad and marking all lines that have

" 301

is a way to find quite some bots :-)


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