Re: [Bug-wget] wget and trackers

[Doruk Fisek]

Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:04:00 -0400, melipone <address@hidden> :

> If you use wget to get a Web page, will you be tracked by those pesky
> Web analytics programs or a page load counter? 
> Inquiring minds want to know. Please send me as much info as
> possible. 
It depends.

If the analytics programs use server logs and they don't specifically
exclude wget (or alike software) yes.

If the analytics programs are called within the web page with a url
from another site (like google-analytics) and if you haven't configured
wget to recursively span across hosts (--span-hosts) then no.

                   Doruk

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