Thanks for the information about what the host yahoo adds when sending my
web page.  Expect that I gave them permission in the 30 page agreement I
accepted when buying their service.

Will contact them and ask if it can be stopped.  If not, will get different
host.

Pookie

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter" <plp@actcom.co.il>
To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: [OT] Resistivity of Web hosts
://princesspookie.com
>
> Pookie, nice picture, but I sort of disliked that 1x1 pixel spyware
> image that page loaded when I visited it. Here is some source from your
> web page:
>
> <!-- text below generated by server. PLEASE REMOVE --><!-- 
> Counter/Statistics data collection code --><script language="JavaScript"
> src="http://hostingprod.com/js_source/geov2.js"></script><script
> language="javascript">geovisit();</script><noscript><img
> src="http://visit.webhosting.yahoo.com/visit.gif?us1112126664"
> alt="setstats" border="0" width="1" height="1"></noscript>
> <IMG SRC="http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=76001405&t=1112126664" ALT=1
> WIDTH=1 HEIGHT=1>
>
> This loads a 1x1 pixel gif which is a thin excuse for sending all sorts
> of interesting user data to the yahoo/geocities servers. The gif's url
> encodes a lot of interesting things such as:
>
>
http://visit.geocities.com/visit.gif?&r=&b=Opera%207.52%20%28X11%3B%20Linux%20i686%3B%20U%29&s=1024x768&o=Linux&c=16&j=false&v=1.2
>
>
http://visit.geocities.com/visit.gif?&r=&b=Microsoft%20Internet%20Explorer%204.0%20%28compatible%3B%20MSIE%206.0%3B%20X11%3B%20Linux%20i686%29&s=1024x768&o=Linux&c=16&j=false&v=1.2
>
> which is not at all what I want it to see, as relevant data to that
> effect is sent in CGI headers by the browser. It's a canine trick to
> make sure one collects the real real information about visitors I guess.
> Also very cunning female canine trick to load a gif page instead of the
> usual cgi or script page in case the end user has some filters
> installed.
>
> Anyway, speaking of rules, there is now a new rule in my firewall ;-)
> Interesting to note that the site runs the servers on FreeBSD.
>
> thanks,
> Peter
> -- 

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