**SPAM** [Full-disclosure] Weird... www.eon8.com

[Michael Simpson]

On 7/1/06, Juha-Matti Laurio <juha-matti.laurio at netti.fi> wrote:

> Sometimes checking the cached Google version gives some basic information
> without visiting an url.
> But when choosing 'Show Google's cache of www.eon8.com/'
> my Firefox says Transferring data from www.eon8.com...
> This is weird and not expected, because I have never visited this site.
>
> Cached version was saved on 22nd Jun. It shows Googlebot's IP at main
> page:
> IP: 66.249.66.207 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Googlebot/2.1;
> +http://www.google.com/bot.html)
>
> I.e. why there is traffic to eon8.com at all?
>
> - Juha-Matti


it happens because google doesn't cache the images, only the text
therefore the standard cached page ending with "&strip=0" still contacts the
page's server for the current images

changing the value of strip to 1 means that you only access google and won't
appear in the target webserver's logs

this is all documented by Johnny Long at johnny.ihackstuff.com
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