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What it does not do is prevent anyone from temporarily editing the associated wikipedia page and phishing you into an attacker-controlled website.
What's the use case? Or just a fun programming task? Wouldn't this hammer wikipedia unnecessarily? DNS are very quick, lightweight requests.
What's the use case? Or just a fun programming task? Wouldn't this hammer wikipedia unnecessarily? DNS are very quick, lightweight requests.
> Instead of googling for the site, I google for the site's Wikipedia article ("schihub wiki") which usually has an up-to-date link to the site in the sidebar, whereas Google is forced to censor their results. In the video, it doesn’t show this. It shows going to the scihub.idk domain. And then a redirect happens. So does this tool just host a local a domain resolver (and HTTP redirect server) for all .idk domains th…
1. Make a Wikipedia search API request for the .idk domain, using the name as the article name.
2. Retrieve the rendered page contents if found.
3. Find the first Wikipedia infobox table on the page.
4. Extract the first "URL" or "Website" entry in that infobox.
5. Return the entry's value, if it's a link.
All this runs in a nickel.rs server on 127.0.0.1:80, which routes the requests as permanent redirects to the destination. Using dnsmasq,[1] if it's an .idk domain, it routes the request through the above Wikipedia resolver.
1: https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia/tree/master...
Please don't abuse public good infrastructure
1. Wikipedia is a private entity.
2. It is very well funded.
3. That extension probably uses less resources than someone loading an entire webpage with all associated media just to look up a url.
Please don't abuse public good infrastructure