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Frank Rizzo
I am reviewing some IIS6 log files and I have noticed a peculiarity
with certain types or versions of IE6. When a user comes to the site
it logs what page the user requested, the query string and the
referring URL etc in the web logs. The specific field I am interested
in is called the [cs(Referer)] field. As anyone whos knows a bit
about HTTP knows that once the request for the initial page comes in,
the browser does a GET for all of the items/objects in the HTML file
itself, this includes images, CSS files, JavaScript files etc. Each of
these items then has the referer field as the original page requested
PLUS the original query string. Ex:
http://www.abc.tv/index.asp?a=1&b=2. I have only seen IE6 have this
problem and it's only certain version of IE6. If the problem occured
with other browsers, I might think that IIS was the culprit, but since
it is only IE6, I tend to think it's a IE6 peculiarity.
These are the 4 examples I have with HTTP version included
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HTTP/1.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1)
HTTP/1.0 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1)
HTTP/1.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+98;+EZN/PC)
HTTP/1.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
I don't have any way to test this either as my desktop box does not
have this problem. No other browser exhibits this problem that I am
aware of.
Is this a problem or a bug in IE6? Is this some anomoly of HTTP? Does
anyone know what causes this problem?
--Franky
with certain types or versions of IE6. When a user comes to the site
it logs what page the user requested, the query string and the
referring URL etc in the web logs. The specific field I am interested
in is called the [cs(Referer)] field. As anyone whos knows a bit
about HTTP knows that once the request for the initial page comes in,
the browser does a GET for all of the items/objects in the HTML file
itself, this includes images, CSS files, JavaScript files etc. Each of
these items then has the referer field as the original page requested
PLUS the original query string. Ex:
http://www.abc.tv/index.asp?a=1&b=2. I have only seen IE6 have this
problem and it's only certain version of IE6. If the problem occured
with other browsers, I might think that IIS was the culprit, but since
it is only IE6, I tend to think it's a IE6 peculiarity.
These are the 4 examples I have with HTTP version included
----------------------------------------------------------
HTTP/1.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1)
HTTP/1.0 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1)
HTTP/1.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+98;+EZN/PC)
HTTP/1.1 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.1;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322)
I don't have any way to test this either as my desktop box does not
have this problem. No other browser exhibits this problem that I am
aware of.
Is this a problem or a bug in IE6? Is this some anomoly of HTTP? Does
anyone know what causes this problem?
--Franky