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by Alan Savoy on Nov 13, 2008 - 03:04 PM read 149 times 		 

While sniffing my local communication with the hub to debug some code, I noticed something odd.  The search page is prompting the browser to load s.gif from extjs.com.

I am guessing somebody used the extjs JavaScript libraries on that page and extjs is tracking usage.  I was not sure if the Apps team was aware of this, or if it is important.  Extjs.com is able to see how often this page is accessed and what the query string is each time, which includes the tags, even if secured.

Here is the dump of that particular session from the sniffer.  Notice that the host is extjs.com and the referrer is the search page.

GET /s.gif HTTP/1.1

Accept: */*

Referer: http://www.ngenera.com/convs/search?keyword_list_1=textron&keyword_list=textron&x=11&y=17

Accept-Language: en-us

UA-CPU: x86

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

If-Modified-Since: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 21:45:43 GMT

If-None-Match: "71217d-2b-ec5ecfc0"

User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727)

Connection: Keep-Alive

Host: extjs.com

 

 

HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified

Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:58:37 GMT

Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Red Hat)

Connection: close

ETag: "71217d-2b-ec5ecfc0"


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    by Rodrigo DeJuana on Nov 13, 2008 - 03:20 PM read 57 times     		 

    This has been fixed in the latest code.  If you look at portal.ngenera.com you will see that s.gif is local now.  You can see this by using firebug under the net tab.


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