The makers of REFFY I need to talk to you.

bump time

I saw the e-mail. The keyword is anonymous proxies. Anonymous proxies filter out everything, including the Referer header. ;)

So if I don't use anonymous proxies, what is the point of setting it to 50 hits? Only 1 will be counted in most targets.

80.58.3.235 - - [08/Feb/2005:22:56:16 -0800] "GET /license.php HTTP/1.0" 200 482 "http://www.me.com" "Mozilla compatible"
62.163.67.3 - - [08/Feb/2005:22:58:39 -0800] "GET /license.php HTTP/1.1" 200 494 "http://www.me.com" "Mozilla compatible"
218.108.20.242 - - [08/Feb/2005:22:59:02 -0800] "GET /license.php HTTP/1.0" 200 482 "http://www.me.com" "Mozilla compatible"
213.56.68.29 - - [08/Feb/2005:23:00:02 -0800] "GET /license.php HTTP/1.0" 200 482 "http://www.me.com" "Mozilla compatible"
201.134.119.125 - - [08/Feb/2005:23:01:15 -0800] "GET /license.php HTTP/1.1" 200 494 "http://www.me.com" "Mozilla compatible"
168.143.113.125 - - [08/Feb/2005:23:01:27 -0800] "GET /license.php HTTP/1.1" 200 494 "-" "Mozilla compatible/4.78 (TuringOS; Turing Machine; 0.0)"

I just tested 6 proxies and 5 out of 6 DO pass the referrer... Now I will run the same test with your software and see if I am just high on crack cocain.

They are not typical anonymous proxies then, as far as I know.

With a packet sniffer I discovered that the headers are not right when using proxies though. So you were right to begin with. I will have it straightened out and resent to all customers as soon as my C++ guy comes online.

Settings - 40 clicks - use proxies (have 6 with 1 that I know will not pass referrer) and Simulate real clicks ON

80.58.3.235 - - [08/Feb/2005:23:13:21 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 1015 "http://www.me.com" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT)"
218.108.20.242 - - [08/Feb/2005:23:13:22 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 1015 "http://www.me.com" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
218.108.20.242 - - [08/Feb/2005:23:13:22 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 1015 "http://www.me.com" "Mozilla/5.5 (compatible; alpha/06; AmigaOS)"
218.108.20.242 - - [08/Feb/2005:23:13:22 -0800] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 1015 "http://www.me.com" "Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.0.0; Linux)"

Out of the 40 clicks only 4 made it. Only 2 of the known to be good proxies were used and this would mean that I got counted only 2 times. I wanted to get counted at least 5 (the number of good proxies).

The proxy bug has been fixed and the new version has been sent out. In addition, I compiled a new default URL list to go with it. So Reffy now comes with an URL list of 11,909 active blog websites.