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A handful of sites will present the subscribers view of the page if you put a dot after the tld part of the url, i.e. https://site.com./1235/article https://si
by retox 4y ago
A handful of sites will present the subscribers view of the page if you put a dot after the tld part of the url, i.e.
https://site.com./1235/article https://site.com./1235/article
Those behind Cloudflare don't seem to be vulnerable to this though.
I've emailed the sites I've found where this works and none of them have fixed it after a year.
- neoromantique 4y ago>I've emailed the sites I've found where this works Why?
- bilekas 4y agoCan't speak for OP but I think I would be annoyed if I was paying a subscription and I found out I could get around it with a simple `.` because of developer incompetence.
- neoromantique 4y agoIf you are paying for a subscription then hopefully you do it to support the publication and find their work useful, and not because of a nag banner.
- bilekas 4y ago> to support the publication and find their work useful, and not because of a nag banner. Unfortunately they kind of go hand in hand these days!
- z3t4 4y agoPeople don't pay for free stuff, even if they like it. People are however lazy, and many would pay to not have to put a dot in the URL every time.
- manojlds 4y agoGood that you spoke for yourself.
- mock-possum 4y agoMaybe some kind of common mistake when writing a pattern match
- creamyhorror 4y agoWhy would this work? I know FQDNs sometimes require specifying a period at the end, and browsers seem to accept it as well, but I wonder why this would affect some frameworks' displayed content. Normally a site would rely on a cookie to maintain logged-in status, and that shouldn't be affected by the request URL.
- tyingq 4y agoMaybe some backend concession to allow viewing the article on hostnames/uris that are meant for internal use, partner sharing sites, etc? Like an if/then that checks the origin hostname?
- telotortium 4y agoMaybe Javascript or backend mistake in matching the domain name - most people don't know that domain names can end with a final dot.
- bilekas 4y ago> I've emailed the sites I've found where this works and none of them have fixed it after a year. Guess it's a feature then and not a bug.