On Wed, Nov 26, 2014 at 08:11:27AM -0500, Oliver Keyes wrote:
Gergo: Either the false anchors are sent to the server
or some conniving
elf has been inserting thousands of fake requests into our logs ;). I'm
seeing a lot of requests with #mediaviewer/ URLs, some internal and some
with referers from outside the WMF (implying someone following a link). The
proposed ways forward are useful, but as Erik M says, reorganising active
products for the sake of avoiding a pageviews filter is probably not worth
it unless it's a truly trivial change, so let's just stick with the status
quo for now and I'll build in a filter.
Given we're already in the realm of the impossible - Oliver, do any of
the internal requests look like the Referer is *the same page* as the
one the #mediaviewer link is for? If so, something is very wrong.
If not, something is only moderately wrong.
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Mark Holmquist
Software Engineer, Multimedia
Wikimedia Foundation
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