do they "ping" me? how do they do that? do you have to have a special program to do it?
2007-02-01 18:09:45 · 2 answers · asked by m m 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Stat Counter will tell a person all of that.
2007-02-01 18:13:54 · answer #1 · answered by Wisdom Guru 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you say gamesite, does that mean a webpage?
When you visit a webpage, alot of things are passed along to the webserver. Your IP#, your operating system, your browser info are the main things that are sent. Other things like the referer (the last page the person was visiting and clicked a link on). They are called Server Variables. That stuff is not only recorded on the web server's log files, but can be passed and displayed to you on a webpage, with the correct programming tags. The page can be manipulated to do different things based on what web browser (agent) the user is using or can determine what country your IP# belongs to and display pages accordingly to that fact too. Lots of neat stuff people can do with that info when writing web pages. They can tell other things like if you have logged into the webpage with Basic Authentication, Read Cookies previously written by that website, tell if you are using a https address, content type, keysize, https server issuer, https keysize, query string (thats the ?something=1&somethingelse=2,etc you see in web addresses), lots more...
I even wrote you a quick 20 second webpage to display your IP#, web browser, operating system. Click here: http://sharpnetwork.net/test.asp
2007-02-02 02:51:18 · answer #2 · answered by SharpGuy 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋