Hidden IMG tag with video on http://start.fedoraproject.org/

David Howells dhowells at redhat.com
Thu May 21 10:40:56 UTC 2015


Hi,

On the fedora start page, http://start.fedoraproject.org/ there's an IMG tag
with a URL pointing to a hidden video:

	<img src="https://mattdm.fedorapeople.org/council/2015-05-11_Fedora-Council_Subproject-Status-Marketing.webm">

Unfortunately, both konqueror and chrome appear to assume that an IMG tag
refers to a small image and try to download it immediately.  Finding this out
blew my entire monthly bandwidth cap in three days:-(.

This is apparently a hidden video:

	<div class="col-xs-1 col-sm-1 hidden-xs">

I've raised a bug against Konqueror:

	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1223720

where there's a packet trace.

According to the w3c, IMG is supposed to be used for "a non-interactive,
optionally animated, image that is neither paged nor scripted."

David



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