Ask HN: GET /public/data/AppConfigurations/175/logos.png?

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by ZeroMinx • 13 years ago

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Hello

Looking at the weblogs for a site of mine, I see a lot of requests for /public/data/AppConfigurations/175/logos.png . Occasionally also some variation, like /public/data/AppConfigurations/61/shandrani-web-.png

Does anyone know what this might be? I'm curious, and google gives me nothing.

These have been happening long before the site officially launched, and as far as I can tell, the requesting hosts only do this one GET request, nothing else.

I see a few referers, like "http://es-mg42.mail.yahoo.com/" and "http://webmail.mundo-r.com/". This adds confusion, as they are Spanish webmail sites, and my site is Swedish only.

Does anyone know what this is about?

thanks

RobinUS2• 13 years ago

My best guess would be that your domain has been used before? I also get lots of requests on my domains to files that are long gone (couple of years).

ZeroMinx2• 13 years ago

I guess it's possible, but I don't think that's the case here. The domain name is just 5 characters long, but it's quite obscure; it's not a real word.

We registered both .SE and .COM in April, and I don't think either had been used before. The .COM is currently parked, I'm seeing all of this on the .SE site.

The referals I've seen appear indicate Spanish clients; There could be a mixup (Spain = .ES), but the domain name .ES isn't registered by anyone.

I don't think there's much to be too concerned about, I was merely curious what this might be.

quaffapint• 13 years ago

Have you checked wayback on the domain? http://archive.org/web/web.php

Ask HN: GET /public/data/AppConfigurations/175/logos.png?

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