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

#91

Post by tyingq »

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.

It's because your site responds to HEAD requests with a 405.

They are doing a HEAD request to see if the url is valid, and if it returns anything other than 200 OK, they reject the url.

  $ curl -IX HEAD https://dmitri.shuralyov.com/
  HTTP/1.1 405 Method Not Allowed

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

#92

Post by andersonmvd »

It would be cool to somehow be able to send a feedback to the previous user who shared the link. I can see a few things being derivative from this idea. Nice idea, but yeah, horrifying when it comes to security. We really have to trust the previous user or simply leave the website. It would be great if you could perform some scan to check for pornographic content, scripts (js) in the page, malware and so on. That's a nice page to exploit CSRF as you don't need to persuade the user to click in a link, you just redirect him.

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

#93

Post by mmathias »

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?

Well, that could happen on any website that you visit. IMO it does not make a difference whether you know the link before you click it or not, because you still don't know what you will get. But I am thinking about implementing some sort of virus/malware scanning.

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

#94

Post by mmathias »

gnarfish wrote: post #66
mmathias wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They get removed.

No, you put them in a database. Don't lie to us.

Yes, but they are no longer distributed to users. I thought that was the original question. I'm keeping them in the database to check for SPAM/multiple submissions mainly.

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

#95

Post by mmathias »

mmathias wrote: post #93
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?

Well, that could happen on any website that you visit. IMO it does not make a difference whether you know the link before you click it or not, because you still don't know what you will get. But I am thinking about implementing some sort of virus/malware scanning.

By the way, URLRoulette has a disclaimer that says

"Use at your own risk, the internet is a dangerous place!!"

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

#96

Post by johnfn »

tyingq wrote: post #82
mod wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not seeing the URL is an incredibly huge difference, on average. Also you have zero context and no hive-mind to check the link for you ahead of time.

I dunno...you have plenty of context from my point of view. It's a site with the word "roulette" in it that tells you what it's going to do: "Submit to be redirected to the previous visitor's URL!" I knew it was likely to throw me to the wolves.

Well in GP you asked if there was any difference than clicking links on Reddit. I think you've found one: outside of /new (and even then rarely), posts on Reddit will not throw you to the wolves.

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

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Post by tyingq »

johnfn wrote: post #96
tyingq wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dunno...you have plenty of context from my point of view. It's a site with the word "roulette" in it that tells you what it's going to do: "Submit to be redirected to the previous visitor's URL!" I knew it was likely to throw me to the wolves.

Well in GP you asked if there was any difference than clicking links on Reddit. I think you've found one: outside of /new (and even then rarely), posts on Reddit will not throw you to the wolves.

Generalizing about Reddit is hard.

There are plenty of subreddits where outbound links are dangerous or offensive.

Even one where they are almost guaranteed to have a 50/50 chance of being so.

https://www.reddit.com/r/FiftyFifty/

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

#98

Post by ollyfg »

Trundle wrote: post #69
ptr_void wrote: post #14

Tried it a few times, submitted some general interest links from my bookmarks, only to be redirected to scam sites :( Interesting idea, but it's unrealistic to expect good behavior from internet as a whole. It could be useful to have a delay before redirect to be able to read the url and choose whether or not to go in it.

Yep. Just traded a link to a live stream of golden retriever puppies for someones kickstarter project and instantly thought "well I definitely should have expected that".

Would you care to share the link to that live stream? Sounds fun ;)

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

#100

Post by morgante »

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?

It's no more dangerous than clicking on any shortened URL.
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