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Why would they need a special URL? Pretty much every 'analytics package' since '98 has showed referring URL.
by avree 12y ago
Why 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.