http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/google-chrome-and-the-404 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:51:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://blogs.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/google-chrome-and-the-404/comment-page-1#comment-18729 Tad Heppner Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:27:33 +0000 http://www.labs.com/research/blog/?p=712#comment-18729 It has been reported by one of our fellow McAfee researchers that when the Google 404 page is initially rendered an image file is requested from the Google http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/images/logo_sm.jpg (exact path may very depending on localized build of Chrome). This http request also contains the referrer value referenced in the initial post. The result of this discovery is that no action is actually required from the end user for the information to be sent to Google. By the time the Goggle 404 page is displayed the information has already been transferred to Google. It has been reported by one of our fellow McAfee researchers that when the Google 404 page is initially rendered an image file is requested from the Google http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/images/logo_sm.jpg (exact path may very depending on localized build of Chrome). This http request also contains the referrer value referenced in the initial post. The result of this discovery is that no action is actually required from the end user for the information to be sent to Google. By the time the Goggle 404 page is displayed the information has already been transferred to Google.

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