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Here's the scenario:
On some of my webpages, I have links, that when clicked, execute a local CGI program (let's call it CLICK.EXE". This CGI program provides a redirect (I force it to a 302 in my code), and displays a new browser window with the targeted page. The page that is displayed is totally controlled by my CGI logic - it indexes into a local database table, and based on the look-up into this table, determines what pages should be displayed in the new browser window.
My CGI logic increases a counter for the effected lookup record, so I can keep track of how many clicks for a particular link occurred.
What I have noticed of late, is that a lot of these "clicks" are now displaying as webserver status 200 (instead of "302"), and my counters are not incrementing accordingly in my database. The logic in my CGI program is simple and clean. It always returns a "302".
I thought that perhaps pop-up blockers were potentially causing this phenomenon, but I have tested that scenario locally, and it is not the case.
Does anyone have a reasonable explanation for this behavior ?
Thanks in advance !
Doug
Jim
I still see "302" on my end with this Firefox add-on installed, from my end.
Additionally, I have analyzed my web logs over the last 3 years, and it seems that the occurrences of this "200" phenonmenon is more prevalent than it was 3 years ago, although it did occur back then as well.
I am baffled !
Doug
