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I was doing a web trace to see how much my blog would take in loading time, using Chrome Inspector network tools. I then found a video I had posted and decided to click on it.

The weird thing is that while the video was playing (and almost arriving at the end), I saw the following call going to YouTube servers:

Request URL:http://www.youtube.com/set_awesome
Request Method:GET
Status Code:200 OK
Query string parameters:

(the URL above is my personal blog)

And the answer from Youtube servers was the following:

<ut_response status="ok" />

I do realize (for the data being sent) that possibly this is related to YouTube's video tracking feature, so that people can know when a video stops being insteresting or how much people actually finished sending the video. Is my assumption correct?

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closed as off topic by Sathya, Eight Days of Malaise, phwd Jan 18 '12 at 2:01


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