Guild Wars 2

I run a Firefox plugin called RequestPolicy which blocks off-site references until I enable them.

Starting today it is seeing a large number of references to subdomains of cloudfront.net with garbage names, such as:

d1r2pgr9caw5gy.cloudfront.net

With these blocked the pages don’t render at all sensibly, so I have to enable them to use the site. Is this expected behaviour? I’ve seen no mention of web-site updates to forum-en.guildwards2.com and this has every appearance of a site hack.

I doubt it is but some ‘official’ comment on this would be helpful.

http://aws.amazon.com/cloudfront/
http://whois.domaintools.com/cloudfront.net

These “garbage” subdomains are just to bypass a browsers parallel requests per domain limitation.

Fine, thanks for the explanation, but something changed in the last 48 hours because I used the same browser setup ever since I started using these forums and yesterday was the first time RP ever complained.

Cheers.

Did Request Policy update?

Is the use of Cloudfront the reason why the hom.guildwars2.com keeps breaking with CSS/JS seeming to fail to initialise or load?