/adimage requests in access logs

[karthikeyankomar]

Team
Since last week, we have been seeing increased number of 404s due to customer browsers requesting urls like www.mydomain.com/adimages. There is no pattern of User agent, IPs, OS etc., I am thinking this is more to do with the users browser plugin. But couldn't tell how all of the sudden these plugins could be requesting wrong URLs.

I verified the ADblock settings in my browser and see that there is afilter option for *-adimage-*. Since this setting is present in adblock settings, I assume this is a known url that adblock wants to block; But I couldn't still tell how the end-users of my site are getting these URLs and how all of a sudden it started since last week.

Any one has come across such request URLs containing /adimages?

Thanks
Karthik

[mapx]

there is also the filter

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/adimages.

[karthikeyankomar]

Any thoughts how this URL /adimages is getting triggered?

[mapx]

you could try to contact the devs

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[confusedanalyst]

Hey!

Also seeing this here in our server logs - since 22nd Jan we've had windows users over different browsers and IPs requesting /adimages/. Doesn't occur on our internal network only external windows users.

Unsure as to why and we can't replicate it internally as plugins are blocked but will try to replicate externally.

Thanks

[MonztA]

What makes you think Adblock Plus might cause this?

[Kevin Haynes]

Did anyone figure this out? We're seeing the same 404 intermittent requests to "/adimages/".

[mapx]

contact the devs ==> forum/viewtopic.php?p=91751#p91751

[greiner]

Adblock Plus is not requesting resources apart from filterlists and emergency notifications (as far as I'm aware of and could find out quickly looking through the code). What I can imagine, however, is that some scripts do not handle blocked elements correctly and try to request a fallback resource or that some other extension causes this.

Do you have an example website where this occurs?