Hi Mark, The /msg and /bind urls are hit periodically to sign in to the chat servers and pass background status messages back and forth (your status - idle, active, and your friends' statuses) including "noop" (no operation) messages. Like Dan said, there's a lot of HTTP requests sent even if you're not actively chatting. If your network administrator looked at the POST data sent in each request, they'd be able to visually identify it as harmless.
As a note, you can opt out of chat entirely (although it's a bit unintuitive) by clicking "options" in the bottom left hand corner of the chat box and selecting "Hide chat" (note, not "Sign out of chat"). Hiding the chat disables the messages entirely. ~Arne On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:32 PM, mark cormack <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dan, > Chris, thanks for getting back to me, that solves the issue with the gravatar > and I've contacted the webmasters for smashingmagazine. > Can you give me more information about the igoogle chat function? The Talk > gadget communicating with Google throughout the day even when you are not > chatting. This is what I assumed had happened, the company is saying where > they see a url that reads: > > http://talkgadget.google.com/.../msg<http://talkgadget.google.com/.../testhttp://talkgadget.google.com/.../bindhttp://talkgadget.google.com/.../msghttp://talkgadget.google.com/.../bind> > is > when I have sent or received a message. Can someone confirm whether this is > correct? (I'm sure it isn't as I never used the chat gadget at work) > > And also when they see: > > > http://talkgadget.google.com/.../bind<http://talkgadget.google.com/.../testhttp://talkgadget.google.com/.../bindhttp://talkgadget.google.com/.../msghttp://talkgadget.google.com/.../bind> > it's > where myself or someone else is typing a message to me. Again, I know I > haven't been typing a message can someone please confirm what this message > is? > > Again, thanks for your help and words! > Mark > > On 24 Aug 2009, at 19:14, Dan (Google) wrote: > > > I'm not aware of any connections between gravatar.com and Google > profiles. Is it possible you had a gadget that connects to this site > installed on your iGoogle page? > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
