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https://unbloq.us/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/toto-toilet-japan-bidet.html https://unbloq.us/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/busines... Via

https://unbloq.us/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/toto-toilet-japan-bidet.html https://unbloq.us/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/busines... Via a tool that I made to auto-redirect to archived links :)

layer8 1y ago
By the way, it would be useful if https://unbloq.us/www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/toto-toilet-japan-bidet.html https://unbloq.us/www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/toto-t... worked as well, for manual use (just typing “unbloq.us/”).
- otherayden 1y ago
  Thank you for the feedback, I will fix this!
- otherayden 1y ago
  Fixed! You can now throw urls with or without the protocol (protocol is the "http(s)://" part of the URL) and it will work!
  - AStonesThrow 1y ago
    The protocol or scheme is the "http" or "https" keyword. The colon is a separator. The "//" introduces the "authority component" or host. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL#Syntax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL#Syntax Whatever the user is "throwing at you" if it doesn't have these things in the front, it is not a "URL". It is not even a "protocol-relative URL".
    - layer8 1y ago
      You are technically correct, but for this use case it doesn’t matter, and everyone knows what is meant here. The parent also didn’t claim that a “url without the protocol” is itself a URL (nor, to be technically precise, a relative URI reference).
  - layer8 1y ago
    Thanks!
bmacho 1y ago
https://archive.md/oldest/www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/toto-toilet-japan-bidet.html https://archive.md/oldest/www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/busines...
- otherayden 1y ago
  LOL I spent a whole day building a web scraper to bypass archive.today’s firewall and and… I could just be redirecting people to this link
  - bmacho 1y ago
    > I could just be redirecting people to this link What's the point of that? > I spent a whole day building a web scraper to bypass archive.today’s firewall Meanwhile archive.* refuse to serve the totally human me who makes at most 1 legitimate request a day.

layer8 1y ago

By the way, it would be useful if https://unbloq.us/www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/toto-toilet-japan-bidet.html https://unbloq.us/www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/toto-t... worked as well, for manual use (just typing “unbloq.us/”).

otherayden 1y ago
Thank you for the feedback, I will fix this!
otherayden 1y ago
Fixed! You can now throw urls with or without the protocol (protocol is the "http(s)://" part of the URL) and it will work!
- AStonesThrow 1y ago
  The protocol or scheme is the "http" or "https" keyword. The colon is a separator. The "//" introduces the "authority component" or host. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL#Syntax https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL#Syntax Whatever the user is "throwing at you" if it doesn't have these things in the front, it is not a "URL". It is not even a "protocol-relative URL".
  - layer8 1y ago
    You are technically correct, but for this use case it doesn’t matter, and everyone knows what is meant here. The parent also didn’t claim that a “url without the protocol” is itself a URL (nor, to be technically precise, a relative URI reference).
- layer8 1y ago
  Thanks!

bmacho 1y ago

https://archive.md/oldest/www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/business/toto-toilet-japan-bidet.html https://archive.md/oldest/www.nytimes.com/2025/05/29/busines...

otherayden 1y ago
LOL I spent a whole day building a web scraper to bypass archive.today’s firewall and and… I could just be redirecting people to this link
- bmacho 1y ago
  > I could just be redirecting people to this link What's the point of that? > I spent a whole day building a web scraper to bypass archive.today’s firewall Meanwhile archive.* refuse to serve the totally human me who makes at most 1 legitimate request a day.