Show HN: UrlRoulette – Pass a URL to the next visitor • Hacker News Board

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

#71

Post by badminton1 » Sun, Apr 16, 2017, 2:08 AM UTC

It's not safe to visit random URLs, especially URLs with parameters in them.

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

#72

Post by throwaway5752 » Sun, Apr 16, 2017, 2:14 AM UTC

Is this some sort of infosec performance art? This seems extremely inadvisable for users or the person running the site. What if someone posts something illegal in the jurisdiction of the viewer or a link to a site with an embedded exploit?

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

#73

Post by shurcooL » Sun, Apr 16, 2017, 2:39 AM UTC

I tried submitting my personal site, https://dmitri.shuralyov.com, and got:

    URL seems to be invalid, please try again!

I tried with and without scheme, no luck. Is it a bug? My site redirects from http to https for all queries.

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

#74

Post by ballenf » Sun, Apr 16, 2017, 2:58 AM UTC

soneca wrote: post #37

Just sharing what I got because it was funny: http://eelslap.com

And I got news.ycombinator.com. Thought I had mis-clicked at first. Maybe I should post a link to this comment now.

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

#75

Post by antsar » Sun, Apr 16, 2017, 3:01 AM UTC

will_hughes wrote: post #68

warent wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Their server could trivially query the url and store the result hash. This would also give a chance to scan for malicious content

> Their server could trivially query the url and store the result hash. I'm not sure what you mean here? I've not seen a site tell you "We don't use this query parameter" if you stick an additional param on there.

I think the idea is to detect when different URLs contain the same content. That defends against duplicate entries like example.com/?foo and example.com/?bar (which are the same page).

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

#76

Post by RGS1811 » Sun, Apr 16, 2017, 3:32 AM UTC

jrz53 wrote: post #46

I got meatspinned!

Ugh, same here. That killed it for me.

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

#77

Post by tyingq » Sun, Apr 16, 2017, 3:34 AM UTC

throwaway5752 wrote: post #72

Is this some sort of infosec performance art? This seems extremely inadvisable for users or the person running the site. What if someone posts something illegal in the jurisdiction of the viewer or a link to a site with an embedded exploit?

Is it worse than clicking random links on Reddit, other than maybe you can't see the url first?

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

#78

Post by matthberg » Sun, Apr 16, 2017, 3:54 AM UTC

shurcooL wrote: post #73

I tried submitting my personal site, https://dmitri.shuralyov.com , and got: URL seems to be invalid, please try again! I tried with and without scheme, no luck. Is it a bug? My site redirects from http to https for all queries.

They prepopulate a the http, scroll all the way over, it caught me in a similar issue.

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

#79

Post by Jotra7 » Sun, Apr 16, 2017, 3:55 AM UTC

Thanks for the ransomware delivery service!

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

#80

Post by shurcooL » Sun, Apr 16, 2017, 4:01 AM UTC

matthberg wrote: post #78

shurcooL wrote: post #73

I tried submitting my personal site, https://dmitri.shuralyov.com , and got: URL seems to be invalid, please try again! I tried with and without scheme, no luck. Is it a bug? My site redirects from http to https for all queries.

They prepopulate a the http, scroll all the way over, it caught me in a similar issue.

I tried without "http://" too, it didn't help.