Hick
02-29-2008, 11:35 AM
ATTENTION MEMBERS
Our "News Anchor", Fuitybud, will be useing HxxP rather than the usual HTTP for posting links to news articles. I would like to thank Fuitybud for his aid in protecting our membership with this.
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Here are some of the uses:
* To avoid passing the HTTP referer header which would reveal the referring web site to the target. (MP in this case)
* Making sure that a user doesn't accidentally click on a potentially harmful link, in applications that automatically recognize links in plain text.
* To bypass overzealous link spam protection in, for example blog comments.
* Avoiding automated web crawlers from following the links. While effective, legitimate web crawlers can be avoided through the use of a robots exclusion standard on the target web site. To avoid advancing the search engine rank of the target web site, nofollow attributes can be used instead.
For a user to follow the links, it is usually necessary to manually copy-paste the link onto the web browser's address bar and replace the 'x'es with 't's.
Our "News Anchor", Fuitybud, will be useing HxxP rather than the usual HTTP for posting links to news articles. I would like to thank Fuitybud for his aid in protecting our membership with this.
Quote:
Here are some of the uses:
* To avoid passing the HTTP referer header which would reveal the referring web site to the target. (MP in this case)
* Making sure that a user doesn't accidentally click on a potentially harmful link, in applications that automatically recognize links in plain text.
* To bypass overzealous link spam protection in, for example blog comments.
* Avoiding automated web crawlers from following the links. While effective, legitimate web crawlers can be avoided through the use of a robots exclusion standard on the target web site. To avoid advancing the search engine rank of the target web site, nofollow attributes can be used instead.
For a user to follow the links, it is usually necessary to manually copy-paste the link onto the web browser's address bar and replace the 'x'es with 't's.