Comments on: The Problem with Frame-Wrapping URL Shorteners http://www.zmogo.com/web/frame-wrapping-url-shorteners-bad-for-site-owners/ Information about New and Popular Gadgets Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:32:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Curious http://www.zmogo.com/web/frame-wrapping-url-shorteners-bad-for-site-owners/comment-page-1/#comment-1877 Curious Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:14:13 +0000 http://www.zmogo.com/?p=3028#comment-1877 > Because digg.com’s URL shortener always wraps your site in a digg.com frame, it always appears that it is digg.com requesting your site. Is this really the case? Your browser is still loading the content in the iframe with a direct HTTP call, I'd think digg.com would always be the REFERRER but not the request source. It would still muck up your analytics though, the whole thing is an obnoxious move on the part of Digg.com. > Because digg.com’s URL shortener always wraps your site in a digg.com frame, it always appears that it is digg.com requesting your site.

Is this really the case? Your browser is still loading the content in the iframe with a direct HTTP call, I’d think digg.com would always be the REFERRER but not the request source.

It would still muck up your analytics though, the whole thing is an obnoxious move on the part of Digg.com.

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