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kieron_horide-h
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How do I turn off requests going to Google Analytics and fast.wistia.com in SoapUI NG?

While trying to trouble-shoot requests from SoapUI NG, I fired up Burp Suite and set the proxy in Ready! API to localhost:8080. In addition to my test's requests, the requests intercepted included ones to www.google-analytics.com and fast.wistia.com - every time I navigated around the SoapUI NG interface or ran a test.

 

This raised a bunch of questions in my mind: 

 

  1. Why are they there in the first place?
  2. Would this affect my SoapUI performance?
  3. Does this represent a potential privacy or security hole? Is my machine infected with something?
  4. While I can tell Burp Suite to ignore these, how can I turn them off?

Thanks in advance for any help.

 

Examples (note only Ready! API is set to use localhost:8080 proxy on this machine; I have closed the starter pages, only 1 test step open; fresh upgrade to version 1.4.0):

 

 

GET /embed/iframe_shim?domain=net HTTP/1.1
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Referer: http://smartbearsoftware.com/appindex/ready-starter-pages/pro/soapui-ng-starter-page.html
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.44 (KHTML, like Gecko) JavaFX/8.0 Safari/537.44
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Host: fast.wistia.com
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
 
GET /Appindex/ready-starter-pages/pro/soapui-ng-starter-page.html HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Java/1.8.0_45
Host: www.soapui.org
Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive
 
GET /collect?<whole bunch of parameters>
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Referer: http://smartbearsoftware.com/appindex/ready-starter-pages/pro/soapui-ng-starter-page.html
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.44 (KHTML, like Gecko) JavaFX/8.0 Safari/537.44
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Host: www.google-analytics.com
Accept: text/html, image/gif, image/jpeg, *; q=.2, */*; q=.2
Proxy-Connection: keep-alive

 

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