- From: Ka-Ping Yee <kryee@wheat.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 22:57:07 -0500
- To: rivero@sol.unizar.es, www-talk@w3.org
> After my experience with the script to capture REFERRER information > (WWW pages pointing to pages on my server), I took a bit more > of time to be able both to capture and serve such "backlinks" > within each html page. Hi there. I've had such a system operating on my web-sites for a year or two now. My system both collects the Referer: fields and confirms all the links, actually downloading each page to see if it really contains the link. (Many browsers seem to emit spurious Referer: fields -- for example, to the last document shown even when the user is typing in a new URL entirely.) It checks for mirrored pages and maintains a notion of the reliability level of each backlink. The results are always interesting. You can try visiting my pages at http://www.lfw.org/. The word "backlinks" at the bottom of each page is linked to the list of backlinks. (I grew tired of dealing with two auxiliary files, so now it's just a single file containing both the access stats and the backlinks.) Ping http://www.lfw.org/math/ brings math to the Web as easy as <se>?pi?</se>
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