Itty Bitty: Sites contained within their own links
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Itty Bitty: Sites contained within their own links
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Re: Itty Bitty: Sites contained within their own links
#2This is neat!
I did something similar with https://tinysite.adamdrake.com where I have a website that fits into a single ipv4 datagram (at least it did when I was using my own HTTP server).
More details here: https://adamdrake.com/the-biggest-smallest-website.html
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#3I wonder how large a website using this scheme can practically be to work on most browsers. I know of at least one browser that limited URLs to 100 characters, but it's almost 30 years old…
Re: Itty Bitty: Sites contained within their own links
#4I wonder how large a website using this scheme can practically be to work on most browsers. I know of at least one browser that limited URLs to 100 characters, but it's almost 30 years old…
While most sites/apps support about 2000 bytes (2KB), some can handle more... Twitter and Slack, for example, allow 4000 bytes in a link.
4000 bytes is enough to apparently encode the full text of Poe's The Raven.
https://twitter.com/edgar_the_poe/status/1003524516440563712
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#5Don't use this for anything where you don't want cross-site-scripting vulnerabilities...
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#6This is neat! I did something similar with https://tinysite.adamdrake.com where I have a website that fits into a single ipv4 datagram (at least it did when I was using my own HTTP server). More details here: https://adamdrake.com/the-biggest-smallest-website.html
Someone has to combat our wasteful packet usage!
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#7How does this compare with data URLs?
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#8The link says
> nothing is sent to–or stored on–this server
but isn't it the case that the entire page is sent to bitty.site as part of the HTTP request?
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#9The link says > nothing is sent to–or stored on–this server but isn't it the case that the entire page is sent to bitty.site as part of the HTTP request?
The location.hash (#About...) is not sent to the server, which is where the content is rendered from.
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#10The link says > nothing is sent to–or stored on–this server but isn't it the case that the entire page is sent to bitty.site as part of the HTTP request?
No, the page content is never sent to the server. all the server does is serve a static HTML page with some javascript. The javascript reads the compressed encoded data in the URL (the fragment which browsers never send to the server during a request) and then it decodes the data and writes the data to the current DOM.
All content data is stored in the link itself and never seen by the itty.bitty server.