What's the deal with yui.yahooapis.com

[t0p]

Why is it that, whenever I navigate to a link on this site, my computer transfers data to/from yui.yahooapis.com (http://yui.yahooapis.com)? Is the owner of this site secretly sharing our user info with a mysterious third party. (Ooo-Eee-Ooo)

If you go to that address, you'll find it is 404 Not Found... according to Yahoo! The site yahooapis.com (http://yahooapis.com) leads to developer.yahoo.com (http://developer.yahoo.com), which is home page for the Yahoo Developer Network.

Why this data transfer with Yahoo developers? Inquiring minds want to know.

[I-75]

Maybe that is related to one of the "spiders" that are actually a part of our user base?

Currently Active Users: 12914 (911 members and 11941 guests and 62 Spiders)

[sisco311]

q. Why is my browser trying to connect to http://yui.yahooapis.com when browsing ubuntu forums?
A. The new forum software uses yahoo's javascript libraries. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/articles/hosting/
a. You can also find information here about the use of the yui in vbulletin. http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showp...7&postcount=20

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[cardinals_fan]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=904808

In short, it lets the admins host javascript off the forum servers.

[t0p]

Thanks, sisco311 and cardinals_fan.

But get this: try to navigate to yui.yahooapis.com (http://yui.yahooapis.com) and you get 404 Not Found error. That address is no longer extant. So why continue sending data there?

[Mehall]

Thanks, sisco311 and cardinals_fan.

But get this: try to navigate to yui.yahooapis.com (http://yui.yahooapis.com) and you get 404 Not Found error. That address is no longer extant. So why continue sending data there?

404 = no index.html home.html .php, .aspx, etc, etc.

Just because something has nothing to show to you, doesn't mean it's not doing anything.

[Polygon]

yeah, yahooapis is similiar to googleapis.com, it just has some useful javascript api's that people can link to and use without having to write their own.

and a 404 means its just not responding to a http request, it doesn't mean it doesn't respond to other types of requests.