Quick follow-up: There was a javadoc comment in userprefs.js that pointed to the apache.orgserver. MySpace believes that some in browser utilities to prevent phishing in a small percentage of MySpace's userbase was reading the comment and then pinging apache.org.
Their removing the source code doc in the next code deployment & will go live later this week, I'll keep an eye on the apache logs to verify this does indeed resolve the issue. -- Chris On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MySpace has been able to locate which apps have been causing this 404 > traffic and their communicating with them now. > > We expect this to be resolved just before the end of the week, will ping > again once that's done & thanks for your patience! > > -- Chris > > > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> myspace has looked at it, but it seems it's one of the opensocial gadgets >> that's available in their (sizable) gadget index that's causing it and not >> their code. >> >> investigation is still ongoing. >> >> -- Chris >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 5:25 AM, Chris Chabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> Took a quick look @ the log files, and indeed all the requests seem to >>> come from http://api.msappspace.com/apprendering/<foo>, which is >>> myspace's opensocial server. >>> >>> If i look at the html and javascript source of the rendered apps, I only >>> see a documentation reference to the given url: >>> ... >>> * <script src="http://apache.org/shindig/prefs.js >>> "></script> >>> * <script> >>> * gadgets.Prefs.parseUrl(); >>> * var prefs = new gadgets.Prefs(); >>> * var name = prefs.getString("name"); >>> * </script≶ >>> ... >>> >>> and no live references, also when i load up one of those app url's I >>> don't see any requests going to apache.org ... however the coincidence >>> is a bit to large that there's a doc reference and so many 404's, so i >>> expect at some point (or even currently) there's some code on myspace or in >>> one of the gadgets that is a cut & paste from that comment? >>> >>> Looking at the log files on people.apache.org this does indeed still >>> seem to going on. >>> >>> Scott and/or Paul, can you please relay this internally @ myspace to >>> someone who could see if this is some odd gadget or something in myspace's >>> code that causes this? >>> >>> -- Chris >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 1:24 AM, Paul Querna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi shindig-dev@, >>>> >>>> Over in infrastruture land, we are noticing quite a few 404s being >>>> generated with shindig in the URL, for example: >>>> >>>> $ bzcat /x1/logarchive/eos/2008/11/04.bz2 | grep /shindig/prefs.js | >>>> grep -c www.apache.org >>>> >>>> 322822 >>>> >>>> (potentially private ip addreses from the 3rd party are in this, so >>>> figured I shouldn't share those here :-) ) >>>> >>>> Full details on these requests can be found on people.apache.org. >>>> >>>> But they are all with the referrer of " >>>> http://api.msappspace.com/apprendering/"; as a base. >>>> >>>> I'm not really sure if this is something from shindig, or from the 3rd >>>> party, but I figure someone on this list has better chance of knowing who >>>> to >>>> talk to than me emailing random people from DNS addresses. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Paul >>>> >>> >>> >> >
