A URL Lengthener • Hacker News Board

Re: A URL Lengthener

#171

Post by floatingatoll » Fri, May 14, 2021, 9:46 PM UTC

On iOS, the location bar animates scrolling through the aaaaaas when you navigate to the site. Someone had to design that animation. Thank you, anonymous designer.

Re: A URL Lengthener

#172

Post by reaperducer » Fri, May 14, 2021, 9:53 PM UTC

geocrasher wrote: post #31

Back in the early days of web hosting I recall that a customer had a domain name that was literally as long as ICANN would allow at the time. It was very nearly a full sentence. I don't recall the limit but this domain aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com is 57 characters (not including .com) and I think that sounds familiar. One could have a lot of fun with that if they wanted to (and such as…

Some companies still don't mind long domain names.

This one launched very recently: https://www.hardrockcasinonorthernindiana.com

Nearby, the Chicago Botanic Garden went short: https://ohwow.org

Re: A URL Lengthener

#173

Post by 9dev » Fri, May 14, 2021, 9:57 PM UTC

brink wrote: post #138

marmot777 wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I miss getting Rick Rolled.

Here you go, sweetheart. https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

Darn it! That’s even worse!

Re: A URL Lengthener

#174

Post by limeblack » Fri, May 14, 2021, 9:57 PM UTC

hvenev wrote: post #152

This domain uses 56 `a`-s. Interestingly enough 63 `a`-s .com is also a URL lengthener: http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

Try scrolling to the right they have an infinite scroll with a's going.

Re: A URL Lengthener

#175

Post by dang » Fri, May 14, 2021, 9:58 PM UTC

We took "Show HN" out of the title because it implies that the project is the submitter's own personal work. Please don't do that if it isn't. The rules are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27157877

Re: A URL Lengthener

#176

Post by hinkley » Fri, May 14, 2021, 10:03 PM UTC

lurkerasdfh8 wrote: post #17

fun fact. in the browser wars of 1993(?) i looked at the specs from netscape (mozilla dady for the young folks) and microsoft (what w3c? ha!) and netscape release a browser spec that said "X must support up to Y", as in "url must be up to 1024 chars", "cookies must be up to 1mb", etc... then microsoft release IE4 (or 6?) web spec. It was literally a copy of netscape's but with "up to" replaced with "at least". and fr…

Didn't IE have buffer overflow attacks due both to long headers and long URLs?

Talk about being hoisted on your own petard...

Re: A URL Lengthener

#177

Post by g3ol4d0 » Fri, May 14, 2021, 10:06 PM UTC

you got a xss bro https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

Re: A URL Lengthener

#178

Post by neal_jones » Fri, May 14, 2021, 10:06 PM UTC

divs1210 wrote: post #170

hvenev wrote: post #152

This domain uses 56 `a`-s. Interestingly enough 63 `a`-s .com is also a URL lengthener: http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

That's very weird! How did you even find this?

Sometimes instead of typing google.com I end up typing gooooooooogle.com

Re: A URL Lengthener

#179

Post by regus » Fri, May 14, 2021, 10:07 PM UTC

This reminds me, I did a little investigation into what the actually URL length limits are per browser. Here is the blog post in case you are interested:

https://joelregus.com/posts/url_length_limits/

Re: A URL Lengthener

#180

Post by JonathanMerklin » Fri, May 14, 2021, 10:09 PM UTC

g3ol4d0 wrote: post #177

you got a xss bro https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

Thought I'd comment to note that (as of 2021-05-14T22:07:00Z) this just does the alert() POC and isn't nefarious, if anyone is deeply curious enough to click but cautious enough to avoid a deaddove.jpg situation