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1. bdoreste
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have several <a> tags in my blog posts which redirect to affiliate links, by using the Pretty Link plugin.

   The problem - every time I edit a post, my WP install is performing http HEAD commands on all of the <a> tags.

   When I log into my affiliate marketing portal, I see a whole bunch of "clicks" from my server fetching the http HEAD command. Of course, these false clicks skew the conversion tracking on the links.

   What is causing WP to fetch http HEAD on the <a> tags every time I edit posts, and how do I get it to stop? The HEAD commands are definately coming from my server, as the apache logs show my server IP, the redirect link, and the HEAD every time it is requested.

2. porcupine73
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hello. I am noticing this type of activity as well. I was wondering if anyone had any additional information on these HEAD requests, and more importantly, how to stop them? I installed the no self pings add in which helped me not get so many e-mails when inserting links to my own site, but these HEAD requests are still killing the server.

3. porcupine73
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   In researching this issue further, I am thinking it might be coming from a call to
   discover_pingback_server_uri($pagelinkedto, 2048);
   in comment.php. That will then do a HEAD request, apparently looking for a x-pingback value in the returned headers.

4. Acejam
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Did you ever find a resolution to this issue? I'm also experiencing the *exact* same issue now.

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