backlinking back-atcha: David Watson has already responded to my question about how to use his getReferer web service. It sounds pretty simple and I can't wait to try it. Unfortunately, I've got a big project due Friday and I'm going to have to turn Radio off for a couple of days or I'll be in a world of pain. (Radio is like a siren in the Homeric sense (think of the creek/frog scene in "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?") -- it's always calling if it's on.) I'll play around with getReferer on Saturday (if all goes well between now and then).
David has also explains why getReferer works the way it does. I think I understand the complexity issue, and I think David's solution is a great compromise to do everything he says -- it provides an easy-to-use, low-overhead, nearly-universal solution (for Radio users). To automatically show referers by page, rather than by site, you'd need to write separate code for every server, right? And that doesn't seem practical. I agree. At the same time, all Radio-hosted sites run on the same server, right? So the specific, page-level log file parser for the Radio server would take care of a bunch of people, wouldn't it? Just a thought.
Note to self: Get Webalizer. 8:50:07 AM 
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