The Un-Official Proxomitron Forum
Google Image Search - Printable Version

+- The Un-Official Proxomitron Forum (https://www.prxbx.com/forums)
+-- Forum: Forum Related (/forumdisplay.php?fid=37)
+--- Forum: General Discussion (/forumdisplay.php?fid=16)
+--- Thread: Google Image Search (/showthread.php?tid=1090)

Google Image Search - ProxRocks - Sep. 05, 2008 05:01 PM

anyone else notice that Google Image Searches are "redirecting" all of a sudden?

is there any way around that?


for example, Google Image Search from "proxo" via - http://images.google.com/images?q=proxo

and the browser gets redirected to - http://images.google.com/images?q=proxo&ei=m2XBSKq0FYn6MtHF4foH&gbv=1
the number is randomly generated each time, but the Google Servers know who did the search and from where...


quite "disturbing" that Google is attaching an ID string to image searches !!!

RE: Google Image Search - ProxRocks - Sep. 06, 2008 02:54 AM

for others blocking cookies and scripts by default, the image search redirect is "fixed" by adding GBV=1 to the cookie...

IncExc (not the IncExc-U, but the IncExc) entry:
Code:
images.google.
  $SET(0=a_rdlink.f_cookie.)$SET(sCookieP=0)
  $SET(sCookieF=PREF=ID=3003added0032123:FF=4:NR=25:CR=2:GBV=1)
  $SET(sUserFn=§c&&c.getElementById§)$SET(sUserFnR=!)

(your NR= may differ from mine...)

RE: Google Image Search - whenever - Sep. 07, 2008 07:35 AM

Is the redirect a javascript redirect?

I am using Opera and disable javascript globally. How could the redirect still happen?

RE: Google Image Search - ProxRocks - Sep. 07, 2008 01:33 PM

it seems to be something Google is doing "server-side"...

at least, when i open the "what is proxo thinking" page and go to "recent url's", the LENGTH is ZERO for the non-redirected link...

did the GBV=1 fix work for you?

RE: Google Image Search - whenever - Sep. 07, 2008 03:05 PM

(Sep. 07, 2008 01:33 PM)ProxRocks Wrote:  it seems to be something Google is doing "server-side"...

at least, when i open the "what is proxo thinking" page and go to "recent url's", the LENGTH is ZERO for the non-redirected link...
I dont' think it is a server side redirect because I didn't see any 301/302 redirect in the log window. Instead, I saw many filter matches on the first url and the second (after redirected) url.

If you download the first url via a downloader, you can find location.href in the source.

It seems Opera will let location.href go even if you disable javascript. I know you use Opera too so could you confirm that?

(Sep. 07, 2008 01:33 PM)ProxRocks Wrote:  did the GBV=1 fix work for you?
Unfortunately it doesn't work for me.

However, when I make tests on Firefox which I set to accept google cookie, it doesn't redirect even without the GBV=1 fix. Is it supposed to be that - no redirect if you accept cookie?