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Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

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Post by Clex »

mmathias wrote: post #3
egfx wrote: post #2

Says my URL https://www.qkast.com is invalid.

That's odd. UrlRoulette does some sanity checking on the content of the URL. Thank you for this bug report!

You test the URL with a HEAD method that often 404. You should try with GET instead.

Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

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Post by artursapek »

mmathias wrote: post #3
egfx wrote: post #2

Says my URL https://www.qkast.com is invalid.

That's odd. UrlRoulette does some sanity checking on the content of the URL. Thank you for this bug report!

https://cryptowat.ch fails too. seems to fail at very basic URL parsing.

Re: Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor

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Post by schmich »

mmathias wrote: post #5
zelah wrote: post #4

I like this idea but there is a lot of porn. Can you block the porn?

Well, I'm not exactly sure about how to do that. I could implement a list of all the major porn sites, but then people could still post porn URL using URL shorteners...

Steven Black's hosts compilation [1] is a good start for what to disallow. For URL shorteners, you could disallow URLs that trigger an HTTP redirect (e.g. HTTP 301), or you could follow the chain of redirects and apply your rules to the terminal URL.

[1] https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

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