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The solution I used to use in high school: add a period to the end of the domain name. E.g. "www.facebook.com" became "www.facebook.com.". Apparently, the last
by chacham15 13y ago
The solution I used to use in high school: add a period to the end of the domain name. E.g. "www.facebook.com" became "www.facebook.com.". Apparently, the last dot does nothing, but gets around almost all pattern matchings. Everyone I told was amazed, but it actually worked (and teachers/administration were clueless).
- notimetorelax 13y agoHere's some nice explanation on that matter: http://www.dns-sd.org/TrailingDotsInDomainNames.html http://www.dns-sd.org/TrailingDotsInDomainNames.html. Excerpt from the page: "domain name that doesn't have a dot at the end is not fully-qualified and is potentially ambiguous".
- girvo 13y agoMy favourite was that http was blocked, but https wasn't at my school. Easy peasy :)
- TazeTSchnitzel 13y agoI use that for a different trick at school. It gets around keyword filtering on search terms :)
- jonmetz 13y agoThis type of filtering made the EFF's HTTPSEverywhere common in my last school