404 errors caused by browserconfig.xml

  • Resolved IvanRF

    (@ivanrf)


    10 years, 8 months ago

    A month ago I added this question to StackOverflow: Microsoft Edge browserconfig.xml causing 404 errors on images.

    I saw that thanks to Wordfence. Today, I realized that I could check my host log to see if this was an Edge bug or a Wordfence issue.

    Here you have a screenshot, and this is the log:

    IP - - [15/Sep/2015:08:17:22 -0700] "GET /browserconfig.xml HTTP/1.1" 200 280 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.10240"
IP - - [15/Sep/2015:08:17:23 -0700] "GET /en/asus-smart-gesture-and-windows-10/images/by/silver-logo.png HTTP/1.1" 404 64608 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.135 Safari/537.36 Edge/12.10240"

    It looks like an Edge bug, what can you tell with this log info?

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  • Plugin Author WFMattR

    (@wfmattr)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Unfortunately, it’s supposed to be a feature! It’s similar to how favicons work — browsers request them even when they’re not referenced in the site’s HTML.

    The 404 error itself won’t hurt much. If your site was extremely busy, it might slow it down a little, but should not matter much for most sites.

    Thread Starter IvanRF

    (@ivanrf)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Based on the log that I sent, do you think this is an Edge bug?

    It’s trying to get an image on the wrong URL.

    Plugin Author WFMattR

    (@wfmattr)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Nope — that’s the way that MS Edge is intended to work. It looks for that file whether the site mentions it (in the HTML) or not. If it does exist, it can set how tiles look in Windows 8 and up.

    Thread Starter IvanRF

    (@ivanrf)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Please, read the first post. This is not about the file browserconfig.xml, it’s about its content.

    Inside the file, there are images referenced but the browser tries to get those images on a different URL.

    Plugin Author WFMattR

    (@wfmattr)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    Sorry, I misread the question. The path of the file in the log matches the screenshot you included of the 404 log from Wordfence, so it is not a Wordfence bug, so yes, it might be an Edge bug, or it could be that browserconfig.xml is not set up correctly.

    Thread Starter IvanRF

    (@ivanrf)

    10 years, 8 months ago

    I use an absolute path on browserconfig.xml. At least, now I know I’m not crazy :). I will search where to inform this Microsoft Edge bug. Thanks!

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