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A PowerShell snippet for PowerShell that answers requests for /pixel.gif with the empty GIF, decoded once at startup.
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# Works in Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7+ (.NET needs an absolute path).
$bytes = [Convert]::FromBase64String('R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==')
[IO.File]::WriteAllBytes((Join-Path $PWD 'pixel.gif'), $bytes)
We ran this snippet and compared the bytes it returned.