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Why is Google Chrome making these weird requests?

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Mar 15, 20262177 views
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Problem

I noticed that now and again, Chrome will make three requests to weird hostnames that arent resolved. For example: Other example weird hostnames: Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas what's going on? I have all Chrome extensions disabled. UPDATE This question answered already on serverfault: https:…

Error Output

HEAD http://gtblynlsos/ HTTP/1.1
Host: gtblynlsos
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
Content-Length: 0
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1;…

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Fix for: Why is Google Chrome making these weird requests?

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This question answered already on serverfault: https://serverfault.com/questions/235307/unusual-head-requests-to-nonsense-urls-from-chrome

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