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I wonder if the "?hn" at the end of the URL was added to get around repost prevention† or a favor for the people watching analytics at Wired? † Original submis
by md224 12y ago
I wonder if the "?hn" at the end of the URL was added to get around repost prevention† or a favor for the people watching analytics at Wired?
† Original submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7628952 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7628952
- kmowery 12y agoAlmost certainly repost prevention... I tried to add this article yesterday and was upvote 4 on the previous link. It just didn't get the random boost it needed to make it to the front page.
- avree 12y agoWhy would they need a special URL? Pretty much every 'analytics package' since '98 has showed referring URL.
- dangrossman 12y agoThere is no referrer in their logs for any visit from this page. Referrer headers are not sent across HTTPS->HTTP transitions; this is a secure page, and the link to Wired is not.
- krallin 12y agoNote that the HTTP RFC mandates that browsers should not send referers when doing HTTPS -> HTTP, so this may not be the case here. But, yeah, this was probably to work around the duplicate detector.