I have a local Apache webserver set up and I was accessing my site via Microsoft Edge. I have the hosts file and Apache's VirtualHosts set up to let me access http://app.local.tld
(this points to 127.0.0.1
).
In Edge's developer tools, I saw the following request when loading my page:
http://ieonline.microsoft.com/suggestions/ie/dominantimages?qry=url:http://app.local.tld
This returned an XML response:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<dominantimageresponse xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Search/2013/dominantimage">
<url>http://app.local.tld</url>
<imagedata></imagedata>
</dominantimageresponse>
What is this request/response for? What is Edge asking Microsoft for about the URL I am going to? http://app.local.tld
only exists on my machine, so it's obviously not useful to them.
EDIT: I also see a request to
https://t.urs.microsoft.com/urstelemetry.asmx?MSTel-Client-Key=SOME_KEY
Some searching revealed this URL may be for "SmartScreen", so I think this is unrelated.
EDIT 2: Might dominantimages
be for Edge's "live tile" or "top sites"? When I change the URL in the query to http://microsoft.com
, I get some more data back.
http://ieonline.microsoft.com/suggestions/ie/dominantimages?qry=url:http://microsoft.com
This gives:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<dominantimageresponse xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/Search/2013/dominantimage">
<url>http://microsoft.com</url>
<imagedata>{},{0|0|2.09999990463|http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Microsoft_logo_and_wordmark.svg/220px-Microsoft_logo_and_wordmark.svg.png^0|0|0.899999976158|http://c.s-microsoft.com/en-us/CMSImages/BTS_StoreYellow_0715_768x768_EN_US.jpg?version=0746beba-3539-1599-1ea6-ae1ce691fa15^0|0|0.600000023842|https://assets.onestore.ms/cdnfiles/onestorerolling-1508-24008/shell/v2_5/images/logo/microsoft.png}</imagedata>
</dominantimageresponse>