NOT a referrer spammer
There’s a pretty nifty tool out there that I’ve used on occasion if I wanted to see if my .htaccess blocks of certain user agents are working:
Just remember if you get that one in your logs, it’s NOT a referrer spammer! The tool often puts the site in the referrer, which is correct since it actually loads your page (well, usually the code) on that page, so it does access from that site.
I’d just hate to see that one reported to Google just because of a hair triggered spam hunter.
Sam Spade does what wannabrowser does - better. But if you need a different IP number, then wannabrowser is good.
March 8th, 2005 at 3:12 pm
Ann,
you probably know this already but there is a cool Firefox extension called refspoof (see http://refspoof.mozdev.org/) which adds a toolbar to your Firefox and allows you to do the same as wannabrowser (spoof your referrer - great for testing the .htaccess, as you said).
March 19th, 2005 at 1:32 pm
A better tool for checking .htaccess rules is quickspoof.
http://quickspoof.cjb.net/