[Question] browser sending external requests in the background

[DarkmatterUAE]

When the browser is loading a wikipedia page from kiwix-serve, I got curious why it's taking a few seconds to complete, so I opened the dev tools, ticked "Disable cache" and reloaded the page. Kind of curious why requests to upload.wikimedia.org appeared (though failed, since there's Internet censorship in my country) on the network log? Is this a problem with the zim file, or should kiwix-serve blocks such external assets loading from happening?

kiwix-serve in alpine linux:

libkiwix 11.0.0
+ libzim 8.0.0
+ libxapian 1.4.21
+ libcurl 7.86.0
+ libmicrohttpd 0.9.75
+ libz 1.2.13
+ libicu 72.1.0
+ libpugixml 1.12.0

libzim 8.0.0
+ libzstd 1.5.2
+ liblzma 5.2.7
+ libxapian 1.4.21
+ libicu 72.1.0

[kelson42]

This is a problem with mwoffliner and ticket should be moved there... but we already one of that kind there I believe.

[nijazm]

yes, I reported that few years ago, from different github account, but I block such requests locally using extensions like ublock origin or umatrix...I think only two images or svg files try to be loaded

[mgautierfr]

It would be interesting to test it with kiwix-desktop. kiwix-desktop should block this kind of requests even if the zim file itself is buggy.

[DarkmatterUAE]

I think only two images or svg files try to be loaded

Yes. It's a lock-shaped indicator suggesting certain cited material can only be accessed after registration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Citation#Subscription_or_registration_required

[kelson42]

Duplicate of https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner/issues/1280