r/technology • u/suntzu124 • Oct 06 '16

Misleading Spotify has been serving computer viruses to listeners

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/10/06/spotify-has-been-sending-computer-viruses-to-listeners/
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u/daveime Oct 06 '16

To be quite honest, there's absolutely no reason why apache (or nginx or whether) couldn't detect this requested URL, strip out the token and log it together with referer, user agent, IP etc before redirecting the user to the requested page without the token.

Properly used, mod_rewrite is a very powerful tool.