What the hell is going on with those expand-on-hover boxes that you need to move your mouse to see? Who thought that was a good idea?
Why don't they just break and add a new line? These are really annoying.
HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit
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Re: HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit
#22I have a RESTful Symfony2 bundle that sends an X-Men header with a random X-Person from the comic books:
https://github.com/brightmarch/BrightmarchRestfulBundle/blob...
Re: HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit
#23Is 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
Yeah it is a waste, but then so is sending CSS and Javascript that hasn't been minified. Or having multiple CSS / Javascript files when they could be consolidated. Or having long variable / class names in CSS / Javascript. Or constantly referring to Javascript as Javascript and not JS.
At some point you have to question whether you're being too stingy with bandwidth. Particularly when easter eggs like this could potentially bring you a few new visitors from the free advertising that happens when your site is discussed on blogs and forums like these.
But if nothing else; I think fun should be encouraged. After all, that's what Wozniak set out to do when he co-founded Apple :P
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#24Am 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.
No, you're not. That headline was abusing that time-honored tradition.
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#25Is 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
Maybe they're just sending the headers for user-agent "curl"?
Nope, tried with Chrome latest and Firefox latest. I wondered the same.
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#26curl -I www.reddit.com HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Server: '; DROP TABLE servertypes; -- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 10:30:26 GMT Connection: keep-alive
Haha, brilliant!
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#27Is 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
I wouldn't say a terrible waste of bandwidth given the novelty trade off it provides to people like us.
Besides, there's more wasted bandwidth from dubious user generated content per second floating around the internet at any second.
If you have 100 million requests per day, then you definitely have bigger problems such as your monthly CDN bill. :)
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#28I know Wordpress.org sends a header called X-Hacker or something, telling people who see the header to look at their jobs page and tell them about the header.
It's not that hard to check and it seems they don't. But they have this other X-nc header:
$ curl -I wordpress.org
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:15:43 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Connection: close
Vary: Accept-Encoding
X-nc: HIT luv 139Re: HTTP Headers For Fun & Profit
#29I know Wordpress.org sends a header called X-Hacker or something, telling people who see the header to look at their jobs page and tell them about the header.
# curl -I http://automattic.com
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx
Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:53:44 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Connection: keep-alive
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Last-Modified: Fri, 07 Dec 2012 12:51:57 GMT
Cache-Control: max-age=193, must-revalidate
X-nananana: Batcache
Vary: Cookie
X-hacker: If you're reading this, you should visit automattic.com/jobs and apply to join the fun, mention this header.
X-Pingback: http://automattic.com/xmlrpc.php
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#30I'm a bit disappointed there are no fun headers on xkcd :/