[PLUG] CSS file name curiosity

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Sat Apr 18 18:27:50 UTC 2009


Most likely a template driven site as you mentioned Drupal. Maybe it's
a dynamic string from a database of templates perhaps?

On 4/18/09, Michael Rasmussen <michael at jamhome.us> wrote:
> I was viewing the source to a web page I retrieved and saw
> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all"
> href="/sites/default/files/css/04b371acb6269192bb0f071989867540.css"
> />
>
> Hmmmh?   That's a strange name for a css file.   When I open another browser
> I see:
> <link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" media="all"
> href="/sites/default/files/css/04b371acb6269192bb0f071989867540.css"
> />
>
> Same thing, BTW the browsers were Konqueror and Firefox.  My cookies from
> the site don't contain that string.  The
> Firefox cookies do include a session ID.
>
> I'm thinking the 04b371acb6269192bb0f071989867540.css is a link to some
> regular file name like non-ie-browsers.css or
> perhaps it's an auto-generated css based on a mix of parameters.  But why,
> as in what's the point?
>
> Ideas?
>
> The site is http://www.mercycorps.org/ and I suspect it is Drupal driven.
>
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