[IP] 'homeland.fbi.gov' visits dozens of Weblogs

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Glenn Fleishman <glenn@glennf.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 21:57:55 -0800
To: Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>
Subject: Re: [IP] 'homeland.fbi.gov' visits dozens of Weblogs

On 4/4/03 9:48 PM, "Dave Farber" <dave@farber.net> wrote:

> 66.12.154.134 - - [02/Apr/2003:19:21:10 -0800] "GET /2002/12/16.html
> HTTP/1.0" 200 26489
> "http://homeland.fbi.gov/Watchlists/suspect/view.jsp?record=895754";
> "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5)"

The referring URL can be anything: it's not verified in any way by any
system. Many firewall products allow you to type in a value that is fed out
as part of your Web file request, or not send a referring URL.

What's even more interesting is that the referring URL doesn't show you
anything except where a browser has been, not from where the request is
being made. 

So this is a joke by someone.
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