Caching Lycos Ads

Hi,
i always thought of caching adverts of lycos.(de|com) etc. and mailed
lycos half a year ago about the problematic URLs they use pointing them to
other possibilities of counting hits (expire times, IMS etc).

870618733.002 15421 194.123.65.180 TCP_MISS/304 106 GET
http://www.lycos.de/ads/msn-de5.gif?N:10335^ - DIRECT/www.lycos.de -

I now had an idea how to cache those requests. A small perl redirector:

                if ($url =~ /www.lycos.de\/ads/)
                        {
                        $url =~ s/\?.*$//;
                        }
                print "$url\n";

870632551.190 691 a.b.c.d TCP_HIT/200 7832 GET
http://www.lycos.de/ads/msn-de5.gif - NONE/- image/gif

This seems to work. Lycos will now count only 1 hit per advert and
expire time :) but ill save bandwith.

Flo

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