digg is not 1337

digg is not 1337 - Artur Bergman

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digg is not 1337	[Sep. 20th, 2008\|03:41 pm] Artur Bergman
hope:~ sky$ curl -v http://digg.com/ > /dev/null* About to connect() to digg.com port 80 (#0) * Trying 64.191.203.30... connected * Connected to digg.com (64.191.203.30) port 80 (#0) > GET / HTTP/1.1 > User-Agent: curl/7.16.3 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.0) libcurl/7.16.3 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.2.3 > Host: digg.com > Accept: / > < HTTP/1.1 200 OK < Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:41:13 GMT < Set-Cookie: 1337=0; path=/ < Transfer-Encoding: chunked < Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 According to themselves at least. They also don't serve last-modified or ETag
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krow
2008-09-21 05:00 am (UTC)

gir-3:~ brian$ telnet slashdot.org 80
Trying 216.34.181.45...
Connected to slashdot.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
host: slashdot.org

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 04:54:52 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.41 (Unix) mod_perl/1.31-rc4
SLASH_LOG_DATA: shtml
X-Powered-By: Slash 2.005001221
X-Fry: Hey look, it's that guy you are!
Cache-Control: private
Pragma: private
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Vary: Accept-Encoding, User-Agent

There are a few hacks like this :)

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From:

crucially
2008-09-21 10:03 am (UTC)

Hiding stuff for fun and profit!

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sderle
2008-09-23 06:24 am (UTC)

that cookie is set on the *client*. they're saying *you're* not 1337.

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keltickolor
2008-09-24 02:38 am (UTC)

When are we going to The French Laundry? I am trying to coordinate my schedule and I don't remember if it was November or February. Either (probably) works for me.

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