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Link is broken

• anonymouskimmer 2y ago
  Not for me. Huh. I'm guessing Firefox can parse the extraneous period at the end of .com correctly.
  • Kim_Bruning 2y ago
    It's not extraneous. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_qualified_domain_name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_qualified_domain_name
• tithe 2y ago
  Sorry about that. I usually put a dot at the end of the TLD to bypass certain registration/paywalls (which is effective when browsing Reuters in Chrome/Brave). Dan: the time has expired and I cannot edit the URL, but could we drop the trailing "." after the "com", please?
  • metadat 2y ago
    How does the "." bypass paywalls?
    • tithe 2y ago
      In the cases of Reuters' registration [0,1] and Bloomberg's paywall [2,3], it's traversing an edge case in the authorization logic in the page's script. [0] https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-pushes-boeing-plead-guilty-connection-with-fatal-crashes-sources-say-2024-06-30/ https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-pushes-boeing-plead-guilty-... [1] https://www.reuters.com./legal/us-pushes-boeing-plead-guilty-connection-with-fatal-crashes-sources-say-2024-06-30/ https://www.reuters.com./legal/us-pushes-boeing-plead-guilty... [2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-01/blackrock-buys-preqin-for-3-2-billion-in-private-data-expansion https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-07-01/blackrock... [3] https://www.bloomberg.com./news/articles/2024-07-01/blackrock-buys-preqin-for-3-2-billion-in-private-data-expansion https://www.bloomberg.com./news/articles/2024-07-01/blackroc...