Maybe the toolbar sends you to that page which the...
Anonymous ยท 2009-04-07T23:15:00
Maybe the toolbar sends you to that page which then redirects you on to whichever URL it's talking about. That way a website owner browsing his logs for referrers would see that page listed for every StumbleUpon user who landed on his site (unless you're like me and use RefControl set to forge a referrer for any 3rd-party request) and might follow it back and see the marketing spiel.
Is each StumbleUpon-ed website in your history immediately preceded by one of these refer.php pages? Not sure how it knows to redirect people hitting it as part of the toolbar process while still showing a marketing spiel to you when you return/somebody comes from elsewhere, but maybe the toolbar sets a session cookie or something before calling the page. If they made the page's logic just do a straight, content-less, HTTP redirect when that cookie is present, you wouldn't ever see that page when being directed to a site by the toolbar, just see the URL flash in the location bar.
Maybe the toolbar sends you to that page which the...
Anonymous ยท 2009-04-07T23:15:00
Maybe the toolbar sends you to that page which then redirects you on to whichever URL it's talking about. That way a website owner browsing his logs for referrers would see that page listed for every StumbleUpon user who landed on his site (unless you're like me and use RefControl set to forge a referrer for any 3rd-party request) and might follow it back and see the marketing spiel.Is each StumbleUpon-ed website in your history immediately preceded by one of these refer.php pages? Not sure how it knows to redirect people hitting it as part of the toolbar process while still showing a marketing spiel to you when you return/somebody comes from elsewhere, but maybe the toolbar sets a session cookie or something before calling the page. If they made the page's logic just do a straight, content-less, HTTP redirect when that cookie is present, you wouldn't ever see that page when being directed to a site by the toolbar, just see the URL flash in the location bar.
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