Infocom was closed down in May 1989. Barely any one still remembers the name, but curiously, I find that most people install the Text Fiction app to play Zork, Infocom’s first and most popular game which lives on in pop…
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Deep links to software downloads – the idiocy that just won’t stop!
My website statistics are off. If I were to believe Piwik, only about half of the visitors to the Raccoon page will actually download the application. Doing a quick grep over the webserver logs and counting unique IP addresses comes…
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WordPress AdSense injection
I have about had it with WordPress AdSense plugins. There’s a ton of them out there (including themes with banner support) and none works properly. I don’t just want to inject a banner into a page, I want to inject…
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The thing about download managers…
Here’s something I keep seeing in the webserver’s log (IP address anonymized) all the time:
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186.0.0.0 - - [18/Feb/2016:04:22:32 +0100] "GET /sites/default/files/download/25/raccoon-3.5.exe HTTP/1.1" 206 15928 "http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0" 186.0.0.0 - - [18/Feb/2016:04:22:31 +0100] "GET /sites/default/files/download/25/raccoon-3.5.exe HTTP/1.1" 206 36200 "http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0" 186.0.0.0 - - [18/Feb/2016:04:22:32 +0100] "GET /sites/default/files/download/25/raccoon-3.5.exe HTTP/1.1" 206 36200 "http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0" 186.0.0.0 - - [18/Feb/2016:04:22:32 +0100] "GET /sites/default/files/download/25/raccoon-3.5.exe HTTP/1.1" 206 421241 "http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0" 186.0.0.0 - - [18/Feb/2016:04:22:30 +0100] "GET /sites/default/files/download/25/raccoon-3.5.exe HTTP/1.1" 206 629005 "http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0" 186.0.0.0 - - [18/Feb/2016:04:22:31 +0100] "GET /sites/default/files/download/25/raccoon-3.5.exe HTTP/1.1" 206 503904 "http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0" 186.0.0.0 - - [18/Feb/2016:04:22:31 +0100] "GET /sites/default/files/download/25/raccoon-3.5.exe HTTP/1.1" 206 516936 "http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0" 186.0.0.0 - - [18/Feb/2016:04:22:41 +0100] "GET /sites/default/files/download/25/raccoon-3.5.exe HTTP/1.1" 206 226362 "http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0" 186.0.0.0 - - [18/Feb/2016:04:22:43 +0100] "GET /sites/default/files/download/25/raccoon-3.5.exe HTTP/1.1" 206 113366 "http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0" 186.0.0.0 - - [18/Feb/2016:04:22:43 +0100] "GET /sites/default/files/download/25/raccoon-3.5.exe HTTP/1.1" 206 80205 "http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0" 186.0.0.0 - - [18/Feb/2016:04:22:37 +0100] "GET /sites/default/files/download/25/raccoon-3.5.exe HTTP/1.1" 206 422816 "http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0" 186.0.0.0 - - [18/Feb/2016:04:22:41 +0100] "GET /sites/default/files/download/25/raccoon-3.5.exe HTTP/1.1" 206 195705 "http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0" 186.0.0.0 - - [18/Feb/2016:04:22:46 +0100] "GET /sites/default/files/download/25/raccoon-3.5.exe HTTP/1.1" 206 34407 "http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0" 186.0.0.0 - - [18/Feb/2016:04:22:36 +0100] "GET /sites/default/files/download/25/raccoon-3.5.exe HTTP/1.1" 206 134664 "http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0" 186.0.0.0 - - [18/Feb/2016:04:22:45 +0100] "GET /sites/default/files/download/25/raccoon-3.5.exe HTTP/1.1" 206 41564 "http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0" 186.0.0.0 - - [18/Feb/2016:04:22:31 +0100] "GET /sites/default/files/download/25/raccoon-3.5.exe HTTP/1.1" 206 459016 "http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0" 186.0.0.0 - - [18/Feb/2016:04:22:39 +0100] "GET /sites/default/files/download/25/raccoon-3.5.exe HTTP/1.1" 206 218648 "http://www.onyxbits.de/raccoon" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0" |
And this is actually a rather tame example with “only” 17 requests (can be considerably more). What’s happening there? Well, The user in question…
Posted in Tips and Tricks, Web
