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To: Stock Puppy who wrote (83638)	7/7/2009 12:39:57 AM
From: Cogito	of 213185

>>3) The web site you were previously looking at (so if you were looking at www.Mcdonalds.com/Big_Mac and then visited www.BurgerKing.com, Burger King would know you were previously looking at Mcdonalds' big mac web page - whether you typed the URL, clicked a bookmark or clicked on a link to get to Burger King (as if McDonalds would have a link to Burger King :-) It doesn't distinguish how you came to the site, it knows only where you came from. << SP - I could be wrong, but I think you're mistaken about this. I've spent quite a bit of time looking through log files on web servers, and through the reports generated by log file analyzers like Webalizer. I believe that what you are talking about is the "referrer" data. That data can only be collected if you arrive at a second site after clicking a link on the first site. I don't believe that web server software has any way of collecting data about previously visited sites if you just click on one of your own bookmarks or you type in the URL of the site to get there. Again, I could be wrong. - Allen

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