Ministry of Railways interview browser manufacturers stop grabbing tickets

Domestic browser ticket-grabbing plug-in also exacerbated the 12306 Web site's server bandwidth pressure

According to people familiar with the situation, in response to this year's Cheetah, Firefox and other browsers grab tickets plug-in phenomenon, the Ministry of Railways tonight to interview Jinshan network, demand immediately stop its Cheetah browser Spring Rush ticket version. This also means that the domestic target for the 12306-ticket version of the browser may face a collective suspension of the situation.

It was reported yesterday that the world's largest social programming and code-hosting website, GitHub, was dragged down by the flow of 12306 of Chinese ticket-grabbing plug-ins. Sina technology from the source learned that the domestic popular browser grab ticket plug-in phenomenon, the Ministry of Railways tonight to interview Jinshan network, demand immediately stop Cheetah Browser Spring Rush ticket version. The Cheetah browser is a browser product launched last year by Jinshan Network, and its ticket-grabbing version was launched on Monday.

"If the Cheetah Spring Festival is closed today, it will help the Ministry of Railways solve the 12306 ticket purchase problem, and we are willing to make sacrifices." At present, we can still use Cheetahs to rob tickets. "Jinshan network officials said that the Ministry of Railways is in communication and consultation, but declined to disclose further details."

According to previous media reports, with the Spring Festival rush approaching, 12306 of web site traffic soared, the popular line tickets "less than 5 minutes will be snapped." And more and more browsers through the built-in grab ticket plug-in to take the opportunity to promote, but this also exacerbated the 12306 Web site server bandwidth pressure. At present, the network can be found with ticket-grabbing Plug-ins browser, including Cheetah browser, Firefox browser, 360 browser and Sogou browser.

It is unclear whether the ministry has interviewed other browser makers.