Reproduced a couple minutes ago in Greece. Oh the bug? I didn't check it out yet.
Twitter Tweet Button URL randomly resolves to a .torrent file
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Re: Twitter Tweet Button URL randomly resolves to a .torrent file
#12Can not reproduce from Germany (manually added the hosts entry)
That's odd, it's the only way for me to reproduce it..
Re: Twitter Tweet Button URL randomly resolves to a .torrent file
#13platform.twitter.com is hosted at Amazon S3 (via an additional CDN). All S3 files by default can be distributed with torrent, if the URL is appended with ?torrent S3 servers will act as a tracker and seeds.
Relevent FAQ from Amazon S3 FAQ page : http://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#What_is_the_BitTorrent_TM_pro...
Re: Twitter Tweet Button URL randomly resolves to a .torrent file
#14Don't twitter use torrents to deploy across multiple servers?
They do (or at least used to). This came to mind for me too.
The platform they developed is called Murder: https://blog.twitter.com/2010/murder-fast-datacenter-code-de...
Re: Twitter Tweet Button URL randomly resolves to a .torrent file
#15I had this happen when I loaded an article from TechCrunch just a couple of minutes ago. USA here.
Re: Twitter Tweet Button URL randomly resolves to a .torrent file
#16Can not reproduce from Germany (manually added the hosts entry)
It works without the host file hack (from Germany).
Edit: I just browsed TC and I am getting the torrent download there too..
Re: Twitter Tweet Button URL randomly resolves to a .torrent file
#17platform.twitter.com is hosted at Amazon S3 (via an additional CDN). All S3 files by default can be distributed with torrent, if the URL is appended with ?torrent S3 servers will act as a tracker and seeds.
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Re: Twitter Tweet Button URL randomly resolves to a .torrent file
#18Happens to me today on Spiegel.de - one of the largest German sites (news site)
Re: Twitter Tweet Button URL randomly resolves to a .torrent file
#19Can not reproduce from Germany (manually added the hosts entry)
Happens to me on Spiegel.de
Re: Twitter Tweet Button URL randomly resolves to a .torrent file
#20This seems like a major security issue, since some browsers (Chrome, at the very least, and probably others) can be set to automatically open a torrent client when links to .torrent files are clicked. Is it possible someone hijacked this IP? Edit: 1. Seems the IP belongs to a CDN (edgecast).
In what scenario is opening a torrent client a major security issue?