#504 Referrals improperly flagged as search engine hits

[Charles Fry]

If a referral to your site is from a different part of
a site that has a
search engine (for example, http://picks.yahoo.com/),
but not from the
actual search engine, it will get logged as a search
engine referral
instead of the actual URL. There's a couple exceptions
added already
for Yahoo Mail, and MSN mail.

The included patch is a potential fix for the yahoo
Picks site, although
they may have other parts of their portal that link
similiarly (and
aren't actually frmo the search engine).

--- /usr/share/awstats/lib/search_engines.pm.orig
2006-01-10
+10:50:58.000000000 -0500
+++ /usr/share/awstats/lib/search_engines.pm
2006-01-10 10:57:59.000000000
+-0500
@@ -110,12 +110,12 @@

# NotSearchEnginesKeys

-# If a search engie key is found, we check its exclude
list to know if it's
+# If a search engine key is found, we check its
exclude list to know if it's
# really a search engine

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
%NotSearchEnginesKeys=(
'msn.'=>'hotmail.msn.',
-'yahoo.'=>'mail.yahoo.'
+'yahoo.'=>'(?:picks|mail).yahoo.|yahoo.[^/]+/picks'
);

[originally reported by azhrarn@underhanded.org as
Debian bug #347426]

[Sergey Kirpichev]

Debian patch:
http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/awstats.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/1013_yahoo_search.patch

[Laurent Destailleur (Eldy)]

The request was closed because date is old.
Problem might be fixed or patch may be obsolete.

If this is not true, please resubmit the request.