Next dream job can be in an HTTP header • Hacker News Board

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by justin66 » Fri, May 15, 2020, 12:47 PM UTC

twicetwice wrote: post #36

Is anyone else annoyed this is being publicized? It pretty much destroys any value that noticing the header might have as a signal. Granted the signal strength was probably pretty low already, as other commenters have pointed out, but blog posts like this must decrease it even further.

> Is anyone else annoyed this is being publicized?

I don't know about annoyed, but I wouldn't want to talk about any movies I haven't seen with the author, or involve them in planning a surprise party.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by ShinTakuya » Fri, May 15, 2020, 12:48 PM UTC

Gravityloss wrote: post #124

ShinTakuya wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The point is that if you crack it, they should send you to some unique link. Even if it's not super hard, it at least proved some level of technical competency and do should allow you to prioritised interview access (maybe at least skipping initial screening).

It works in reverse - you probably wouldn't want to work in such an environment with frustrating practices towards developers.

A valid stance. Incidentally, that's why I've never had any interest in working at a certain couple of FAANG companies.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by tyingq » Fri, May 15, 2020, 12:53 PM UTC

throw_away wrote: post #57

saagarjha wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

$ curl -s -o /dev/null -D - https://frenxi.com/http-headers-you-dont-expect/ HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 47608 Connection: keep-alive Last-Modified: Fri, 15 May 2020 01:35:43 GMT x-amz-server-side-encryption: AES256 Accept-Ranges: bytes Server: AmazonS3 Via: 1.1 ddaf46a95abcfc80e8eae76235e2127c.cloudfront.net (CloudFront), 1.1 37d64bca4c93552139fb3a85c9c4a119.cloudfront.net (CloudFront) St…

curl -I https://frenxi.com/http-headers-you-dont-expect/ also works for this.

Sends a HEAD request instead of a GET, and the output goes to STDERR, so I prefer the parent's suggestion.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by AegirLeet » Fri, May 15, 2020, 1:02 PM UTC

I like adding "Server: Windows 95", "X-Powered-By: PHP 2.0" or something like that. You know, just to mess with people. Make them wonder what the fuck they just stumbled upon.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by csours » Fri, May 15, 2020, 1:11 PM UTC

I love to see the mix of caps and non-caps in the header names.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by giancarlostoro » Fri, May 15, 2020, 1:11 PM UTC

I got one similar message when trying a known exploit of PHP on Facebook. I forgot the bug / exploit it may of even been a easter egg for a single version of PHP but basically you added an argument to a URL path and it showed the PHP files code. Come to think of it, I think someone mentioned it here on HN but I can't remember what it was.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by lonelappde » Fri, May 15, 2020, 1:15 PM UTC

mholt wrote: post #34

galaxyLogic wrote: post #25

I had a similar idea for financing Open Source software projects. The contributing sponsors would get their URL and add-text into a comment at the top of the source-code. The bigger your sponsorship the higher up in the list your company will be. The adds would of course be targeted at hackers, such as come work for us, since only hackers read source-code. So it would be a very targeted ad (like the http-header thing…

Don't do it. People will hate you for it... and never, ever let you live it down. :-/

Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, BSD License literally had an "advertising clause".

The only question would be whether it should be used only for non-transferable "moral" authorship or transferable as the author chooses.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, May 15, 2020, 1:25 PM UTC

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Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by fullstop » Fri, May 15, 2020, 1:29 PM UTC

I found a something in Pinterest headers once. It was something simple, like base64 encoding though, and pointed to a job listing.

Re: Next dream job can be in an HTTP header

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Post by Maxious » Fri, May 15, 2020, 1:43 PM UTC

m0dest wrote: post #50

When Google was working on the first Chromebook, they decided to give away some prototype Chromebooks to developers for free. There was a web form to request one. A small portion of the requests were granted. But they also took a more targeted approach: If you appeared to be a frequent user of the Dev release channel of Chrome (unstable), an offer would appear on the New Tab page to immediately claim a prototype Chro…

If you do a lot of searching for development keywords on Google, you get invited to https://www.google.com/foobar/