univm.gif

what is this?

[RobBroekhuis]

Something new in my logs today: toward the beginning of an apparently legitimate surfing session, I get the following two requests for non-existent files. Is this something like favicon, where prehaps a certain browser plugin looks for certain files by default? Browser was IE6.

07:27:28:GET /graphics/bg/univm.gif [302], (231 bytes)
07:27:32:GET /graphics/titles/titwh.gif [302], (231 bytes)

Rob

[Staffa]

If you google for the first pic name + ext in "" you will find that someone has that exact directory in his site.

Did you check who is the visitor asking for that entry.

[wkitty42]

staffa

If you google for the first pic name + ext in "" you will find that someone has that exact directory in his site.

out of curiousity, i tried that and get no results at all... well, other than a pointer to this message thread...

[j4mes]

[google.com...]

Result #2, starts "index of..."

[RobBroekhuis]

Yes, the univm.gif appears on some swedish fella's site. The titwh.gif I can't find anywhere. I'm just chalking this up to a weird fluke - I wasn't concerned in the first place (It didn't seem like abuse), just curious if those files had a particular meaning. It appears not.
Rob

[stef25]

its da vinci's vitruvian man