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How to tell what your visitor's home page is

Is it possible?

         

adni18

9:23 pm on Oct 8, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Is it possible to tell what your visitor's home page is? Thanks in advance.

Rambo Tribble

9:55 pm on Oct 8, 2004 (gmt 0)

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No, that is not information that is accessible as it would violate privacy to do so.

adni18

1:29 am on Oct 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Ah, but it is. Google has some way of telling if the visitor's home page is google.com or not, but I can't see how.

Rambo Tribble

4:02 am on Oct 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Unless IE exposes it to ActiveX, (which is certainly possible, since ActiveX exposes the user to just about every other affront imaginable) I am skeptical. It would pretty well violate the Same Origin Policy.

Bernard Marx

6:02 am on Oct 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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There's this thing: [msdn.microsoft.com...]

Dunno whether ActiveX is at the bottom of it, or not.
Either way, it's just as dodgy. Are you going to pop up a box suggesting that they change their home page to yours - out of the hundreds of millions of alternatives on offer? If everyone did that, I'd take up knitting instead.

Leosghost

9:53 am on Oct 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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From the page in question at M$
There is no public standard that applies to this method.

In relation to the practices of others this means "hacking" ...M$ usually mean activeX ..same thing ..

Bernard Marx

10:47 am on Oct 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Like
innerHTML
you mean?

Leosghost

11:16 am on Oct 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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Just following the links there..
[msdn.microsoft.com...]
etc
somehow it feels better seeing this stuff through the medium of Firefox...

been awhile since I went for a tour ..cute

Rambo Tribble

1:36 pm on Oct 9, 2004 (gmt 0)

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If I'm not mistaken, IE behaviors are considered ActiveX controls. Oh, icky poo!