Probably the worst URL scheme ever • Hacker News Board

Re: Probably the worst URL scheme ever

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Post by jakub_g » Thu, May 02, 2013, 12:10 PM UTC

joosters wrote: post #18

Take THAT, evil web crawlers! Maybe they are trying to get poorly-written spiders to crash when they hit the site?

Actually when you google site:www.bvb.de there are some readable URLs (not sure how they got there), upon navigating to which they do 302 redirects.

Re: Probably the worst URL scheme ever

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Post by Ovid » Thu, May 02, 2013, 12:11 PM UTC

joosters wrote: post #18

Take THAT, evil web crawlers! Maybe they are trying to get poorly-written spiders to crash when they hit the site?

Well, I do remember years ago when I helped a colleague debug a problem with a web app. Seems that IE was the only browser we could find that crashed with %00 in the URL. I'm pretty certain there was a NUL byte exploit we could have dug into.

Re: Probably the worst URL scheme ever

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Post by msturm » Thu, May 02, 2013, 12:11 PM UTC

Not sure what it is but the URLs on the japanese BVB site look better: http://www.bvb.jp/

Re: Probably the worst URL scheme ever

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Post by Peroni » Thu, May 02, 2013, 12:13 PM UTC

masnick wrote: post #15

LinkedIn URLs are by far the worst. For example, the first profile that came up when I searched for Paul Graham: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=23081590&authTyp...

Some poor PI is going to freak out when he checks his 'recently viewed your profile' stats.

Re: Probably the worst URL scheme ever

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Post by bdg » Thu, May 02, 2013, 12:14 PM UTC

My first thought when I see this:

This is a band-aid to try and prevent an XSS or SQLi flaw somewhere on the site.

Re: Probably the worst URL scheme ever

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 02, 2013, 12:15 PM UTC

masnick wrote: post #15

LinkedIn URLs are by far the worst. For example, the first profile that came up when I searched for Paul Graham: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=23081590&authTyp...

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Re: Probably the worst URL scheme ever

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Post by joosters » Thu, May 02, 2013, 12:17 PM UTC

jakub_g wrote: post #21

joosters wrote: post #18

Take THAT, evil web crawlers! Maybe they are trying to get poorly-written spiders to crash when they hit the site?

Actually when you google site:www.bvb.de there are some readable URLs (not sure how they got there), upon navigating to which they do 302 redirects.

It's just like tinyurl.com, but in reverse :)

Re: Probably the worst URL scheme ever

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Post by ancarda » Thu, May 02, 2013, 12:31 PM UTC

cedricd wrote: post #12

The elephant in the room here of course is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=b7VO4wED8MRumCeiX5fCnF

I never understood why HN has such a peculiar URL for accessing pages. It times out after a while too, is that to stop crawlers?

Re: Probably the worst URL scheme ever

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Post by piqufoh » Thu, May 02, 2013, 12:34 PM UTC

endgame wrote: post #16

XarotheOne wrote: post #10

Haha that is epic. EDIT: I apologise for the really bad comment. I have read the rules now and will only put high quality posts from now on. Thankyou.

http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=epic

ouch

Re: Probably the worst URL scheme ever

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 02, 2013, 12:35 PM UTC

ancarda wrote: post #28

cedricd wrote: post #12

The elephant in the room here of course is this: https://news.ycombinator.com/x?fnid=b7VO4wED8MRumCeiX5fCnF

I never understood why HN has such a peculiar URL for accessing pages. It times out after a while too, is that to stop crawlers?

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