Title: [Plugin: Shadowbox JS] Requests to wp-admin
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Shadowbox JS] Requests to wp-admin

 *  Resolved [SecGen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/secgen/)
 * (@secgen)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-shadowbox-js-requests-to-wp-admin/)
 * Hi,
 * First of all, thanks for Shadowbox.
 * I seem to be seeing a lot of requests to the following path (within the WP-admin
   dir) from normal visitors:
 * /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=shadowboxjs&cache=13a5e2a15c5a61a169f56277a4aa7167&
   ver=3.0.3
 * Is this normal? I don’t see why normal visitors should be requesting anything
   in wp-admin.
 * Thanks.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shadowbox-js/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/shadowbox-js/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Matt Martz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sivel/)
 * (@sivel)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-shadowbox-js-requests-to-wp-admin/#post-1751289)
 * It is normal. In the event that you are unable to use the cached shadowbox.js
   file that is attempted to be written to wp-content/uploads/shadwbox-js the plugin
   will fallback to using the ajax endpoint provided by WordPress to deliver the
   dynamically generated shadowbox.js content.
 * Although admin-ajax.php is located within wp-admin, it is considered to be the
   appropriate ajax endpoint for anonymous users, or authenticated users as well
   as for the admin or frontend.
 * Although this is not an ajax request, admin-ajax.php serves the same purpose 
   by allowing to call a URL with a specific get variable and output content.
 *  Thread Starter [SecGen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/secgen/)
 * (@secgen)
 * [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-shadowbox-js-requests-to-wp-admin/#post-1751500)
 * Hi Matt,
 * Thanks for your reply.
 * My wp-content/uploads/shadwbox-js directory did not have the correct ownership,
   which was preventing the plugin from writing the cached file there.
 * Thanks for clarifying things.

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 * Last reply from: [SecGen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/secgen/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-shadowbox-js-requests-to-wp-admin/#post-1751500)
 * Status: resolved