HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit • Hacker News Board

Re: HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit

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Post by arcatan » Fri, Dec 07, 2012, 12:58 PM UTC

curl -I https://www.instapaper.com/api/1/bookmarks/list

  X-Powered-By: a lot of coffee and Phish

Re: HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit

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Post by SquareWheel » Fri, Dec 07, 2012, 1:06 PM UTC

Only one I know that hasn't been mentioned:

http://www.seomoz.org/

    X-Recruiting: If you're reading this, maybe you should be working at SEOmoz instead. Check out www.seomoz.org/about/jobs

Re: HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit

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Post by whalesalad » Fri, Dec 07, 2012, 1:10 PM UTC

SquareWheel wrote: post #32

Only one I know that hasn't been mentioned: http://www.seomoz.org/ X-Recruiting: If you're reading this, maybe you should be working at SEOmoz instead. Check out www.seomoz.org/about/jobs

I want to say this was copied/ inspired by Automattic's

Re: HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit

#34

Post by rimantas » Fri, Dec 07, 2012, 1:17 PM UTC

  > X-mas: Almost there.

Re: HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit

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Post by dschep » Fri, Dec 07, 2012, 1:35 PM UTC

Slashdot used to have Futurama quotes in their (X-Bender and X-Fry iirc). Don't seem to any more however.

Re: HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit

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Post by Boldewyn » Fri, Dec 07, 2012, 1:35 PM UTC

buttscicles wrote: post #19

nwh wrote: post #4

There's also a lot of fun robots.txt. I forget where it was mentioned (I didn't find it myself) but this one always made me laugh: # robots.txt for http://www.palm.com/ modified 7/28/09 User-agent: Vampires Disallow: /neck

From reddit.com: User-Agent: bender Disallow: /my_shiny_metal_ass User-Agent: Gort Disallow: /earth

Better still: http://www.last.fm/robots.txt

    Disallow: /harming/humans
    Disallow: /ignoring/human/orders
    Disallow: /harm/to/self

Re: HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit

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Post by martindale » Fri, Dec 07, 2012, 1:37 PM UTC

curl -I https://localsense.com/

  HTTP/1.1 200 OK
  x-powered-by: blood, sweat, and tears.

Re: HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit

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Post by Joyfield » Fri, Dec 07, 2012, 1:59 PM UTC

Some thought from a developer (me) : curl -I www.rendip.com

Re: HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit

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Post by jasonkostempski » Fri, Dec 07, 2012, 2:16 PM UTC

dfc wrote: post #7

Am i getting too old? When I see "for fun and profit" I don't think I'm going to read about some easter eggs hiding in http headers.

But it's true in this case, there's a job posting in Interstate's headers.

Re: HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit

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Post by joverholt » Fri, Dec 07, 2012, 2:17 PM UTC

ashray wrote: post #12

Is this not a terrible waste of bandwidth though ? At about 10 bytes per header (on the low end..) and say 100 million requests per day, that amounts to 1Gb of outbound bandwidth, if you count inbound bandwidth then that comes to 2gb in total. Not to mention the cumulative time spent by users downloading those bytes, thereby delaying resource display. Okay, I see that I sucked the fun out of it :P

1994 called, they want their bandwidth back! :)