Strange Tracking Codes

Live HTTP Header Data

[blend27]

while trying to debug some of the code on my site I run this extention to see what data is passed to the form X from page Y.

for some reason there is an extra GET Request to GOOGLE URL

link to Google URL [sb.google.com]

I went to that URL and there is some sort of DUMP of encoded data.

Can Someone Explain me what it is.

[edited by: encyclo at 1:51 pm (utc) on Nov. 25, 2006]
[edit reason] fixed sidescroll in Firefox ;) [/edit]

[Little_G]

Hi,

Do you have this [google.com] extension installed?

Andrew

[blend27]

NOPE
I try to stay away from anything that has Google name on it. In fact I try to stay away from any “tool bars” all together.

and I did a search on "goog-black-url:" on google

Apparently every URL I go to is validated against

[sb.google.com...]

SO GOOGLE Does know every URL that I go to, if I am using FireFox?
Don’t get me wrong I like the Application.

USAGE DATA?

[LunaC]

That's the anti-phishing filter in Firefox 2.0. Somehow yours isn't doing the default behavior of checking against a downloaded database of known bad sites, it's using the 'check with Google' option.

To change this go to Tools -> Options - (Security Tab)

Then You can either uncheck "Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected forgery" or set it to the (should have been default) option of "check using a downloaded list of suspected sites".

That will save your privacy but still alert you to some phishing sites.

[jdMorgan]

> That will save your privacy but still alert you to some phishing sites.

That will save your privacy, alerting you to all phishing sites which have been added to the database, but only after your local database has been updated (every fifteen minutes).

Conceivably, you could be one of the first to visit a phishing site, and if you did so during this database update latency period, then you would not be protected. FireFox Anti-Phishing test results [developer.mozilla.org].

Jim