Re: XEmacs and 1x1 gif images
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi(a)gnus.org> wrote:
Sean MacLennan <seanm(a)seanm.ca> writes:
> It looks like the gif image is good... except it is missing the
> terminator byte (0x3b). It is such a HUGE gif, they are probably trying
> to save space ;)
These are tracker images. Someone claimed that they were constructed
that way because (some) browsers would keep the TCP socket open until
they received the complete image, which they never would, of course.
But this allows the tracker company to see how long time each user
spends reading the page.
I don't know whether this is true, though...
You mean they're *deliberately* broken. I vote for:
(setq gnus-blocked-images "pheedo\.com")
as the default in Gnus, and let's stop faffing around with our GIF handling.
Robert
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