On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 07:10:10PM +0100, Pigeon wrote: > Yeah, tin foil hats on... but SOMETHING weird is going on > and I suspect this is the best place to find people who can > tell me what. And after all my webserver does run Debian :-) > > I've been noticing some very strange activity in my webserver > logs over the last few days. It only seems to happen to > people using American ISPs, mostly Comcast and Verizon. > > What happens is I get a sequence of requests > for all the images off the root page of my website > http://pigeonsnest.co.uk - and only that site, it doesn't > seem to be happening to any others. The requests come in > the usual order corresponding to the order in which the > HTML references them, and have the expected Referer: > header of http://pigeonsnest.co.uk/ . But there is no > request for the actual HTML page, only the images off it. > > Sometimes the sequence of requests for the images is > immediately preceded - as in so close in time that > the process forked to serve it gets the immediately > preceding process ID - by a request for the HTML page > which comes from an IP owned by Google. > > So it looks like Comcast, Verizon and some others are > somehow proxying the requests for my HTML via some > server owned by Google. And unlike a normal proxy, > it caches the HTML for a long time but the images > not at all. > > And it's not people reading the cached copy of my > site from the "Cached" link on a google search. When > people do that it is obvious from the Referer: headers. > > And I can't see any reason why ISPs would proxy the > requests for the HTML and not the images unless they're > doing some kind of content filtering or censorship on > the HTML. How do I know that what Comcast/Verizon/etc > customers are seeing is what I published? > > No doubt there will be several Comcast and Verizon > customers reading this message so I hope some people > will have some useful input.
Hi P, I use Google Reader which is an RSS reader, maybe its doing this? Or maybe someone is using your images on another website? I'm on verizon, is there something I can test? -K -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/| | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keyserver: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | |join the new debian-community.org to help Debian! | |_______ Unless I ask to be CCd, assume I am subscribed _______| -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
