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The paywall of any www.nytimes.com article can be bypassed by changing the hostname to www.nytimes.com. with a dot at the end.
by underyx 6y ago
The paywall of any
www.nytimes.com
article can be bypassed by changing the hostname to
www.nytimes.com.
with a dot at the end.
- nathancahill 6y agoWow. TIL
- shanxS 6y agoHmm.. it screws up CORS to get user subscription info. Good find! (and good lesson)
- lordgrenville 6y agoCould you explain that in more detail? I understand that the dot tells the DNS resolver that it's an absolute domain name rather than relative, but after that I'm lost.