AdGuard Assistant trying to access a website when it's disabled

[randomusername]

On one of my websites I disabled the Adguard Assistant entirely.
Here's an example page: http://gamersirc.net/2015/04/01/eine-kurze-verzoegerung/

However, the logs say the Assistant tries to access the page...

[22-Feb-2016 21:45:13 UTC] /adguard-ajax-api/api?type=gm-get-value&unique_name=Adguard%20Assistant%20Beta&variable_key=settings&sn=(some long string)

I'm not sure why it does that, but my server comes back with 4 (!) 404 messages per site call... (well, naturally).

I use the newest Windows beta as of today.

 

[avatar]

I am 100% sure the HTML page is cached in your browser, just check the HTTP status, it will be 304 Not Modified. So, the page code is cached along with "scripts" linking to Assistant code. As it is disabled, it should return 404, but it seems that Assistant code is also cached and here we are, Assistant is trying to access its settings.

 

[randomusername]

Wouldn't it make sense to not cache the Assistant then?

 

[avatar]

Wouldn't it make sense to not cache the Assistant then?

Then you'll get a 404 error anyway when browser will try to load assistant's code.

The question is why the cache was not suppressed by us after you have disabled Assistant on that page (it should has been suppressed on first page reload).

How exactly have you disabled Assistant?

 

[randomusername]

I just clicked the Assistant icon and chose to not block this page.

 

[avatar]

I just clicked the Assistant icon and chose to not block this page.

Heh, so our hack for reloading page bypassing browser cache did not work.

See the first answer there from Suhan
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10719505/force-a-reload-of-page-in-chrome-using-javascript-no-cache

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Or maybe "reload(true)" no more works in FF.

 

[randomusername]

Well, it is said to work.

 

[avatar]

Hm, I don't know if this is a cause or not, but I see that there is a bug in our code and there are some 404 errors even when Assistant is enabled.

 

[Suhanz]

We have found the issue https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdguardForWindows/issues/928

 

[randomusername]

Hooray! Let me know when I can try it.

 

[avatar]

Hooray! Let me know when I can try it.

Should be good in today's beta version.

The problem is that we don't yet support HTTP/2 and you use it on that website.

This is the first time I see HTTP/2 over TCP, usually everybody use HTTP/2 over TLS which is downgraded to HTTP/1.1 by us.

We plan to implement H2 support by the end of this year.

 

[randomusername]

I did not know that (I don't have root access to that server), but I'm glad to see that the provider obviously cares for modern technologies.
Thank you! I'll try it when I'm back home.