…the more they stay the same. Well, hopefully so.
I’ve been making some changes to the web pages – moving stuff around, rewriting php, that whole deal – mostly centered on making sure things continue to work. I’ve been chasing down 404 errors (“Page Not Found”) which either mean that I moved something and someone later asked for it, or someone for some reason asked for something that didn’t exist. The latter being harder to discover – I don’t know whether I had a bad link on one of my pages, or someone manually typed in a bad link. Sometimes they (y’all) are trying to get to directories manually – for example, so they can see all the pictures in the pix directories. Or trying to exploit Windows vulnerabilities (as the High School saying went, “psyche!”, or something to that effect…)
All I see on my end are their IP address and the pages they were trying to get to (as well as some browser info and other crap). Sometimes I think it’s really too bad you can’t track users back to an email address; on the other hand, I don’t really want the people whose pages I’m visiting to be able to track me down, either.