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These URL's have apparently existed for over a year [1]. The author of that SO question says the links are external to his site. If you're reading this and yo
by csense 13y ago
These URL's have apparently existed for over a year [1]. The author of that SO question says the links are external to his site.
If you're reading this and you have access to web traffic logs from a fairly popular website, see if anyone is visiting your URL's with this query parameter, then post the referring URL here.
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14696073/visitor-using-url-that-doesnt-exist http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14696073/visitor-using-ur...
- itry 13y agoGood idea. Checked the logs on a high traffic website. And indeed, there are GET requests with the _sm_byp parameter. No referrers. But the user agent is "Mediapartners-Google". Also the IP is from Google. So either a bot from google added the parameter on its own, or it found it in the wild.