SecurityRatty: Web Bug Article Updated With PHP/MySQL Source Code

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Web Bug Article Updated With PHP/MySQL Source Code

2008-07-04 18:25:10 by Editor in Irongeek's Security Site

I've updated my very old article on web bugs/web beacons to straighten out some bad formatting and to add an example of a web bug that uses PHP and MySQL. For those that don't know, Web Bugs are images (Gifs, Jpegs, PNGs, etc.) that companies and organizations put into web pages, e-mails and other HTML supporting documents to track information about the viewer. These images are sometime know by other names such as tracking bugs, pixel tags, web beacons or clear gifs. What ever the name, their function is largely the same.