Issue 132059 in chromium: Chrome causing 404's ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”

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Status: Unconfirmed
Owner: ----
Labels: OS-Linux Area-Undefined Type-Bug Pri-2

New issue 132059 by benjamin...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's ending with
“/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

Chrome Version : reproduced with 19.0.1084.52-2 19.0.1084.56 not with
18.xx
OS Version: Linux and Windows
URLs (if applicable) :

reproducible on this URL but can surely be reproduced elsewhere.
http://www.cinefil.com/cinema/multiplexe-mega-cgr-montpellier/


Other browsers tested:
Add OK or FAIL after other browsers where you have tested this issue:
Safari 5: OK
Firefox 4.x: OK
IE 7/8/9: OK

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. point your browser to the URL and refresh a couple of time
2. Sniff the request sent by your browser via a proxy or look at the
website logs
3.

What is the expected result?

No request to /cache/[hex-number urls


What happens instead?

It seems that chromium issue incorrect requests to URL like:
http://www.cinefil.com/cinema/multiplexe-mega-cgr-montpellier/cache/[hex-number]


Please provide any additional information below. Attach a screenshot if
possible.

So far this behaviour has been noticed only on web site with a 'share
button' like share on facebook/twitter/addthis and so one.


Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/536.6 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Chrome/20.0.1094.0 Safari/536.6
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko)
Chrome/19.0.1084.52 Safari/536.5"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64)
AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.52
Safari/536.5elec2sec"

the Hex number seems to be a pattern:
112 caa37016007b56628f231acfd3d91188
15 1ac153537e0bbc8b8a9de07defdd0986
3 2c7c37dbdb579e71cea16605d269117c
1 4b1c12f7fc90ffcf7d775df089f1848f
1 4e4055517809a8bbc8de1acb4ee9e560
1 4e4c29839cc29a17a9890ce7c66a0509
8 4e5c34aa36694027fd6fdda8c61a6f83
74 5aee7c422d54959ff16c4b53a30adeef
1 6ea27742ef81f2b1fccf9059062209b3
134 7b048650daf77b0009b709a4c5d2f424
1 8a0d15781c381e0b0f75075bcd05769a
16 75b0c0d313ed3a92d8f4985cfec54f63
1 339655d9692456b98d49b48330f42731
78 478471b87fc86c1137611b0a5696f077
1 82834726a2d6074b1b61bba6d97bba14
1 082974873229bccfeed0f4ff709dd2d2

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Comment #1 on issue 132059 by s...@uci.edu: Chrome causing 404's ending

with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

Also experiencing this issue from Windows NT users, only seen with version
19.0.1084.52 so far and site does not contain a "Share" button.

Sample request + user agent below:

Request: "GET <removed>/cache/5f9db16bd1ba9e9643ff19c9ad3c6605 HTTP/1.1"
User-Agent: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.52 Safari/536.5" 35870 1618

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Comment #2 on issue 132059 by tsomervi...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

I have also experienced the exact same issues for multiple websites.
Also seen with version Chrome/19.0.1084.56.

Sample request from accesslog:

[14/Jun/2012:20:30:39 +0200] "GET
<removed>/cache/616c50f76b08b93d12b8a2baf89f2638/ HTTP/1.1" 500
2136 "<removed>" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.5
(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.56 Safari/536.5"

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Comment #3 on issue 132059 by boncar...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

Also this problem on website (one page has a share button : addthis.com)

accesslog :

GET /cache7b048650daf77b0009b709a4c5d2f424 HTTP/1.1" 404
3165 "http://www.*****.com/" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0)
AppleWebKit/535.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/18.0.1025.168 Safari/535.19"

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Comment #4 on issue 132059 by boncar...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

GET /cache/7b048650daf77b0009b709a4c5d2f424 HTTP/1.1" 404

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Comment #5 on issue 132059 by boncar...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

I have also this strange issue on website :

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Comment #6 on issue 132059 by jan.fa...@mobilevikings.com: Chrome causing

404's ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

As a website owner I don't see this from all Chrome browsers, so I suspect
it is caused by an extension. If you see this behavior from your browser,
could you please list the extensions you use?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #7 on issue 132059 by tsomervi...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

I have tried to reproduce it by going to one of my websites (with this
problem) with multiple extensions installed.
I tried to look for extensions like cache or speed optimizers. No luck
however.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #8 on issue 132059 by benjamin...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

Hi,

We reproduced the problem on a chrome 19.0.1084.56 with no extra plugins.
But again it seems to happen only on certain website with some sort of
javascript.
We are a hosting company and I can see the problem on many website.

Have a go on this URL, go there throught a proxy and look at your proxy
logs.
http://www.cinefil.com/cinema/multiplexe-mega-cgr-montpellier/

You'll certainly see some requests to :

http://www.cinefil.com/cinema/multiplexe-mega-cgr-montpellier/cache/[hex-number]

Which should not happen.

I am 100% sure that this is on the browser side as many different web site
with complete different framework or CMS have those entry in the logs.



Thanks

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #9 on issue 132059 by boncar...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

My example of website uses protoculous.js (Prototype Version:"1.6.0.3"),
this is a homemade PHP website, not a CMS.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #10 on issue 132059 by pierre.b...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

Hi,

Same issue on hand-made PHP site, we use a lot of JQuery. On some sites
with the issue, we don't have share buttons.



Attachments:
chrome-error.log 33.8 KB

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Updates:
Cc: w...@chromium.org

Comment #11 on issue 132059 by anan...@chromium.org: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

(No comment was entered for this change.)

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Comment #12 on issue 132059 by apa...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

Hi,

Same report on an other hand-made PHP site, without Javascript libraries
used from the requesting page :

"GET /cache/caa37016007b56628f231acfd3d91188 HTTP/1.1" 404
255 "<removed>" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.56 Safari/536.5"

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #13 on issue 132059 by ryan.kas...@languagelab.com: Chrome causing

404's ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

Has anyone figured out what is causing these 404s? The issue is still
affecting my site.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Labels: -OS-Linux -OS-Windows -pri-1 -Action-NeedsReview Pri-2

Comment #17 on issue 132059 by rva...@chromium.org: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

I cannot reproduce this.

Some URL that still shows this?

Please follow http://www.chromium.org/for-testers/providing-network-details
and provide a network log.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #18 on issue 132059 by cyry...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

This bug exists for quite long time.
First Chrome version i found in my logs is 12.0.742.91.

Also hex strings are commen between websites. For example:
9f6015e7e7ab284b2d697b3713c2f02f - now over 4000 hits in google...

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #19 on issue 132059 by zytza...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

This smells of extension territory (mostly due to the way the cache/[hex]
urls appear to be generated + inability to repro on any of the
spotted "stock" Chrome versions).

Chrome versions / UAs spotted in the error logs range from 11 up to and
including 21. First errors spotted back around May 13. Increasing in
frequency since then. (on multiple, unrelated websites, regardless of
underlying architecture).

The general pattern is:

example.com/ -> example.com/cache/[hex]
example.com/something -> example.com/cache/[hex]
example.com/articles/article-title -> example.com/articles/cache/[hex]
example.com/reviews/view/190/ -> example.com/reviews/view/190/cache/[hex]

(last example is a different site exhibiting same behavior but with
trailing slashes in urls)

It's always an extra request "relative" to the originally requested URL
(but not truly relative). It seems the problematic requests are generated
by just appending "cache/[hex]" to the rightmost slash found within the
original url.

Attachments:
error-log-chrome-uas-sample.txt 911 bytes

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Comment #22 on issue 132059 by benjamin...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

Hi,

I don't understand your comment "without a client side repro"
there are heaps of examples.

And the procedure to reproduce is rahter easy.
This is not related to a code injection and it is not a random request as
it is a pattern.

Chromium Browsers are currently spamming the internet with requests
looking like: [domainname]/cache/[hex]
I found those log entry on most of my server logs now.


Thank you for looking into this.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #25 on issue 132059 by boncar...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

rva...@chromium.org : can you explain how to get chrome client side logs
please ?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #27 on issue 132059 by boncar...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

rva...@chromium.org : thanks, i send you an email with logs :-)

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: Untriaged
Owner: ---
Cc: rva...@chromium.org
Labels: -Internals-Network -Pri-2 Feature-Sync Pri-1

Comment #28 on issue 132059 by rva...@chromium.org: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

Thanks.

I see 20 requests, two of them have the pattern of this issue, and both
have LOAD_IGNORE_LIMITS as part of the flags (and they are the only two
requests with that flag).

I'm raising the priority until further investigation.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Labels: -Feature-Sync Internals-Network

Comment #29 on issue 132059 by t...@chromium.org: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

Note the following code in resoruce_dispatcher_host_impl.cc

if (is_sync_load)
load_flags |= net::LOAD_IGNORE_LIMITS;

is *not* "sync" as in browser/sync, it is sync as in synchronous load.
Browser Sync doesn't have any special cased code / flags at this layer. Our
net loads all stem from http_bridge.cc (which is where we'd set flags).
Ricardo pointed out offline this may tie it back to a script running
somewhere (extension?).

Removing Feature-Sync for now.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Labels: -Pri-1 -Internals-Network Pri-2

Comment #30 on issue 132059 by rva...@chromium.org: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

That makes sense again :)

So this is a synchronous XHR. We don't issue those requests (synchronous
requests are nasty) so that brings us back to a script injected
somewhere... maybe an extension, maybe something else.

Are you using any extension? Do you mind disabling them (about:extensions)
and trying again?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #32 on issue 132059 by boncar...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

I asked to 2 users with this error in logs to do "about:extensions" and
they have a common extension in Chrome :

"Browser Companion Helper" (version : 1.04 and 1.0.5)

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #33 on issue 132059 by boncar...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

Nobody cheked ?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #34 on issue 132059 by henry.fa...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

Lastpass, RSS Feed Reader 3.3.6 and RSS Subscription Extension (by Google)
2.2.0 here.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #35 on issue 132059 by henry.fa...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

nvm my previous comment, I had these requests in my server web logs, but
it turned out it wasn't my IP.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #36 on issue 132059 by thomas.l...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

We talked to a user that create these log entries. The user runs Chrome on
Windows and has the "Browser Companion Helper" extension installed in
Chrome. Malware?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #37 on issue 132059 by boncar...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

@thomas.l...@gmail.com : Yes It seems "Browser Companion Helper" should be
a malware extensions

read :
http://www.cleanpcguide.com/remove-browser-companion-helper-removal-guide-how-to-remove-browser-companion-helper/

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #38 on issue 132059 by johannes...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

Still getting loads of these errors.
Client info in the logs looks like: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64)
AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1229.94 Safari/537.4"

Any news on this?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #39 on issue 132059 by mr.baby...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

Indeed, still getting those errors:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12987688/unknown-http-requests-of-type-http-domain-cache-32-digit-alphanumeric-key/12996119#12996119

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Labels: Internals-Network-Cache

Comment #40 on issue 132059 by fin...@chromium.org: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Labels: -Internals-Network-Cache Feature-Extensions

Comment #41 on issue 132059 by rva...@chromium.org: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

This is not related to Chrome's net. It is caused by an extension.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #42 on issue 132059 by sebastia...@netigate.se: Chrome causing

404's ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

having the same issue. even though i found a really good video on youtube
how to fix that (settings-->advanced settings --> uncheck "Predict network
actions to improve page load performance" and "Use a web service to help
resolve navigation errors" and restart the browser) it doesnt help since
all other major web users dont know about this and think the site is broken.

please fix asap!!

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: Assigned
Owner: mpcom...@chromium.org
Labels: Action-FeedbackNeeded

Comment #43 on issue 132059 by mi...@chromium.org: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

Matt, if #41 is correct that this is "caused by an extension," then I
believe we should remove Feature-Extensions and figure out an owner. Do you
see any reason for us to keep it?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #44 on issue 132059 by mpcom...@chromium.org: Chrome causing

404's ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

Yeah, it sounds like this is caused by a particular misbehaving extension.

To anyone who has seen this issue, could you list the extensions you were
running at the time?

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #45 on issue 132059 by jerosi...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

I think we are all seeing this issue in our server logs, not in our
browsers. For extension hint see comment #32.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Updates:
Status: WontFix
Owner: ---
Labels: -Restrict-View-Google

Comment #47 on issue 132059 by mpcom...@chromium.org: Chrome causing

404's ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

The extension in question seems to be "Ginyas Browser Companion" (extension
ID bodddioamolcibagionmmobehnbhiakf). There's apparently a bug in their
code which makes it issue requests for http://.../cache/<md5>. This is not
an issue with Chrome, so I'm marking this WontFix.

[chro...@googlecode.com]

Comment #50 on issue 132059 by mihai.ta...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

I read this topic yesterday, while researching odd requests in our nginx
log.

Today however, I noticed more requests of this form, some of them
originating from my browser, which i verified does *not* have the
aformentioned extension installed.

However, I can't reproduce such requests, as the browser seems to be making
them randomly.

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Comment #52 on issue 132059 by pierre.b...@gmail.com: Chrome causing 404's

ending with “/cache/[hex-string]/”
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=132059

I suggest listing all extensions (with versions) before removing them. If
there isn't any, or anymore, please try to reproduce the bug, maybe the
browser should not be generating those requests by itself, but maybe it
does.