Frank, what is a LUBID Bug?

[Daytek]

Hello,
I have heard of "cache-busting" but never researched what it was.
Now I find this script on a geocities site I went to.
Have you any idea what it does?


</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="/sys/common_scripts.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
// Cache-busting LUBID bug.
var ran = Math.round(Math.random() * 899999) + 100000;
var lubid_string = "<img src=\"http://hb.lycos.com/header?VID=6105&LHIG=1
&ord=" + ran + "\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\">";
document.write(lubid_string);
//-->
</script>

[Frank McCoy]

Post by Daytek
Hello,
I have heard of "cache-busting" but never researched what it was.
Now I find this script on a geocities site I went to.
Have you any idea what it does?

Copied form a quick Google search:

The page employs code to inflate the number of times ads are loaded.

Normally when a page is loaded its code and all ads on the page are
stored in the browser cache. If the page is reloaded, the browser
checks to see if anything has changed on the page. If there are no
changes, the page and ads are loaded from the cache which is faster.
Usually advertisers pay web page owners for every time their ad is
loaded into a browser. Some page operators put code in their page to
confuse the browser into loading ads from the web site every time the
page is accessed rather than from its cache. This is a rip off from
the advertisers's point of view, because it artificially inflates the
number of times that the ad would have been loaded. This code is
called the "Cache-busting LUBID bug".

Post by Daytek
</script>
<script language="JavaScript" src="/sys/common_scripts.js"></script>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
// Cache-busting LUBID bug.
var ran = Math.round(Math.random() * 899999) + 100000;
var lubid_string = "<img src=\"http://hb.lycos.com/header?VID=6105&LHIG=1
&ord=" + ran + "\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\">";
document.write(lubid_string);
//-->
</script>

[Daytek]

In the year of Bush politics, 27 May 2004, Frank McCoy

Post by Frank McCoy

Post by Daytek
Hello,
I have heard of "cache-busting" but never researched what it was.
Now I find this script on a geocities site I went to.
Have you any idea what it does?

The page employs code to inflate the number of times ads are loaded.

....snip...snip....

Thank You Frank.
Call me stupid but I never thought of using google this time.
I looked that script up and down wondering what it changed on my box when
I went to that website, and was stumped.

Have a nice weekend!
I am gone camping.

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daytek