What should I redirect a Java .class file to ?

Ok,

Here's the scenario

There are a whole lot of sites starting to use page tracker URLs/applets to
monitor and report on what a user follows around a particular site. This
includes (in Australia) Trading Post and NineMsn.

With the following URL formats

GET
http://webmeasure.msn.aus.com/cgi-bin/count?http://ninemsn.com.au/default.as
p (some sort of counter)

or

GET http://webmeasure.msn.aus.com:8888/webmeasure/applets/PageGather.class
(Java tracker)

or

GET
http://server-au.sofresimr.com:8888/cgi-bin/count?http://yellowpages.com.au/
yp/sguide/yp_shopguide.html (single pixel GIF)

You can see how bandwidth wasting all this stuff becomes after a while.

The URLs just get either a single pixel GIF (so no actual noticeable
artifacts on the page) or

I don't want to discount Java altogether, just filter out these
links-followed-survey ones. Can anyone suggest what a good "harmless" Java
<APPLET> replacement might look like. A blank file comes to mind...

Any ideas appreciated

Jason
Received on Fri Apr 24 1998 - 09:14:07 MDT