Zombie Share Link?!
Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 7:31 pmSo, this is a new one by me.
I threw up a Share link to Facebook yesterday. A friend of mine, who's a fairly prominent musician, shared it on his wall. He has 5000+ friends, a number of whom in turn shared it on THEIR walls. The upshot of it all was a huge influx of traffic to my server. After several hundred listens in the first hour or so, I threw in the towel and deleted the Share from my server via Settings -> Shared Media.
Today, much to my surprise, I'm still seeing people accessing it - it's been over 24 hours since I deleted it. It's only a trickle (4 or 5 separate sessions today), but I'm totally at a loss as to how they're doing so - when I click on the link I get a 404 as expected.
Any ideas how this could be happening and how I'd go about disabling it once and for all?
I threw up a Share link to Facebook yesterday. A friend of mine, who's a fairly prominent musician, shared it on his wall. He has 5000+ friends, a number of whom in turn shared it on THEIR walls. The upshot of it all was a huge influx of traffic to my server. After several hundred listens in the first hour or so, I threw in the towel and deleted the Share from my server via Settings -> Shared Media.
Today, much to my surprise, I'm still seeing people accessing it - it's been over 24 hours since I deleted it. It's only a trickle (4 or 5 separate sessions today), but I'm totally at a loss as to how they're doing so - when I click on the link I get a 404 as expected.
Any ideas how this could be happening and how I'd go about disabling it once and for all?