https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=66112
--- Comment #1 from [email protected] --- Looking through the log files, we indeed see requests for [1] http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0K[...] so webstatscollector is doing the right thing :-/ Currently, this traffir amounts to ~500K requests per day. We see such requests back until the first sampled log files we still have. (But they were fewer in numbers back then) Requested URLs are mostly to eswiki (~58%), and ptwiki (~38%). Referrers are either empty (~97%) or coming mostly from ptwiki (to a lesser extend eswiki, enwiki). User Agents match '^Mozilla/5\.0 (Windows NT [56]\.' for >98% of requests. Unwrapping the inline data from the URLs, and looking at them it seems they are just images for UI chrome. The images in the data uri scheme decode to images from VectorBeta like VectorBeta/resources/typography/images/search-fade.png VectorBeta/resources/typography/images/tab-break.png VectorBeta/resources/typography/images/tab-current-fade.png VectorBeta/resources/typography/images/portal-break.png [1] Since they are just UI images, here are some concrete examples: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAAuCAIAAABmjeQ9AAAARElEQVR42mVO2wrAUAhy/f8fz+niVMTYQ3hLKkgGgN/IPvgIhUYYV/qogdP75J01V+JwrKZr/5YPcnzN3e6t7l+2K+EFX91B1daOi7sAAAAASUVORK5CYII= http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAAuCAIAAABmjeQ9AAAARElEQVR42mVO2wrAUAhy/f8fz%2BniVMTYQ3hLKkgGgN/IPvgIhUYYV/qogdP75J01V%2BJwrKZr/5YPcnzN3e6t7l%2B2K%2BEFX91B1daOi7sAAAAASUVORK5CYII%3D http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAAQCAIAAABY/YLgAAAAJUlEQVQIHQXBsQEAAAjDoND/73UWdnerhmHVsDQZJrNWVg3Dqge6bgMe6bejNAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAAQCAIAAABY/YLgAAAAJUlEQVQIHQXBsQEAAAjDoND/73UWdnerhmHVsDQZJrNWVg3Dqge6bgMe6bejNAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg%3D%3D -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
