[Nottingham] X-Pingback: Good, bad, delete it?

[Martin]

On 25/04/13 18:29, Martin wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> For the web experts out there:
> 
> In the http headers, is X-Pingback of any use other than for generating
> spam?

Looks like that is yet another feature that the spammers have polluted
into oblivion to waste everyone else's time:

http://www.warriorforum.com/adsense-ppc-seo-discussion-forum/163361-what-pingbacks-wordpress-they-good-bad-useless.html


> BTW:
> 
> A neat trick to see the headers sent for a web page is to drop to the
> good old commandline and use the venerable old wget:
> 
> wget -O - -S "http://www.example.com/" 2>&1 | more
> 
> 
> ( more 'cos I ain't looked up less! :-/ )

Happy surfin',
Martin



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