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Before you deploy, test with facebook.com and twitter.com sent to 0.0.0.0 in your hosts file. Facebook has been getting more reliable, so it's possible to devel
by rabidsnail 14y ago
Before you deploy, test with facebook.com and twitter.com sent to 0.0.0.0 in your hosts file. Facebook has been getting more reliable, so it's possible to develop a feature and deploy it without Facebook breaking.
- ars 14y agoThat may not be enough. If the browser receives an instant connection error it will continue with the other parts of the page. You want to link it to a machine that will never reply - or worse will start to reply and then just sit there.
- duskwuff 14y agoFor this purpose, 1.1.1.1 is probably an OK IP to use for testing. It's in a range that's technically a routable public IP, but which will almost certainly never be announced (as it receives a ridiculous amount of bogus traffic).