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Here is how you can download a copy of the js code, ready, this is very complicated:

curl http://whatever.com/scriptyouwant.js > scriptyouwant.js

Wow, that was hard, wasn't it? It's shit like this that ensures I will never ever donate to the FSF. Morons.

Because disabling it means disabling any history in the address bar. This is stupid. I want it to work the way it's worked in address bars for fifteen years. I type "sl", hit the down arrow, and get slashdot. With the "awesome bar", time and memory is wasted as Firefox looks through every page, page title, url, bookmark, and everything in the history that might contain the letters "sl" anywhere. If I visited a page that was, like, http://whatever.com/sid=726yn27228sl6691, Firefox helpfully shoves that in my face because hey, it has "sl" in there. It's asinine.

I understand that you and others like you enjoy it; that's your perogative. But there are just as many, like me, who hate it. There are a million sites out there that tell you how to adjust "maxrichresults" to 0 to disable it, but all that seems to do is completely disable any history in the address bar whatsoever, which is unacceptable.

It's really irritating that the only two choices are "use the awesome bar, or have no history". What was wrong with the way address bars behaved for the past decade and a half? Why can't we have that as an option at least?

I guess some mean people might do this:

http://www.pc-help.org/obscure.htm

How to Obscure Any URL
How Spammers And Scammers Hide and Confuse
Last Updated Sunday, 13 January 2002

Since this page was first written in 1999, Internet Explorer and Netscape have both begun dealing with URLs differently, particularly in versions 6 and above. Some of the examples here will no longer work with those browser versions.

The URL (Universal Resource Locator) of the page you are now viewing is http://www.pc-help.org/obscure.htm.

It is also http://3468664375/obscure.htm. Go ahead and click on that link. It'll take you right back to this very page.

The weird-looking address above takes advantage of several things many people don't know about the structure of a valid URL.

There's a little more to Internet addressing than commonly meets the eye; there are conventions which allow for some interesting variations in how an Internet address is expressed.

These tricks are known to the spammers and scammers, and they're used freely in unsolicited mails. You'll also see them in ad-related URLs and occasionally on web pages where the writer hopes to avoid recognition of a linked address for whatever reason. Now, I'm making these tricks known to you. Read on, and you'll soon be very hard to fool.

(Note: Depending on your browser type and its version, some of the oddly-formatted URLs on this page may not work. Also if you're on a LAN and using a proxy [gateway] for Internet access, many of them are unlikely to work. Also, fear not; this page does not exploit the "Dotless IP Address" vulnerability of some IE versions.)

How It's Done

Here it is again: http://3468664375/obscure.htm

First take note of the "@" symbol that appears amid all those numbers. In actual fact, everything between "http://" and "@" is completely irrelevant! Just about anything can go in there and it makes no difference whatsoever to the final result. Here are two examples:

http://www.pc-help.org/obscure.htm

http:///^&*()_+`-={}|[]:;@www.pc-help.org/obscure.htm

Go ahead and use the links. If they work at all with your browser, you'll be back to this page again.

This feature is actually used for authentication. If a login name and/or password is required to access a web page, it can be included here and login will be automatic.

Example: http://www.whatever.com/secret/eyesonly.htm

But if the page requires no authentication, the authentication text is in effect ignored by both browser and server.

This presents interesting possibilities for confusing the unsuspecting user. How about this one:

http://3468664375/obscure.htm

If you didn't know better, you might think this page were at playboy.com!

By the way, the @ symbol can be represented by its hex code %40 to further confuse things; this works for the IE browser, but not for Netscape. (Thanks to The Webskulker for this.)

All right, so what about that long number after the "@"? How does 3468664375 get you to www.pc-help.org?

In actual fact, the two are equivalent to one another. This takes a little explaining so follow me carefully here.

The first thing you need to know (most Net users know this), is that Internet names translate to numbers called IP addresses. An IP address is normally seen in "dotted decimal" format. www.pc-help.org translates to 206.191.158.55. So of course, this page's address can be expressed as: http://206.191.158.55/obscure.htm.

Numeric IP addresses are generally unrecognizable to people, and not easily rememberd. That's wh

Basically, the sites affected have two (or more) versions of their site and choose which one to serve depending on the user agent. So in the case, as this, when the browser or proxy agent does not give a useful user agent, don't try to get the mobile company to help you; they obviously are not interested; fall back to ASKING THE USER HIMSELF: just have a little (or big) check box: "click here for desktop, click here for mobile" page. Then store the preferece in the URL and/or cookies (do mobile browsers support cookies?) Or advertise a mobile page, eg:
http://m.whatever.com/ instead of http://www.whatever.com./

Basically, the sites affected have two (or more) versions of their site and choose which one to serve depending on the user agent. So in the case, as this, when the browser or proxy agent does not give a useful user agent, don't try to get the mobile company to help you; they obviously are not interested; fall back to ASKING THE USER HIMSELF: just have a little (or big) check box: "click here for desktop, click here for mobile" page. Then store the preferece in the URL and/or cookies (do mobile browsers support cookies?) Or advertise a mobile page, eg:
http://m.whatever.com/ instead of http://www.whatever.com./

Sometimes there are people who are unnecessarily rude to newcomers. That happens but then there are some newcomers who are just plain asshats.

Sometimes people ask questions that are answered in section 1.1 of TFM.

          Newbie-"Hey, how do you launch programs in this XWindows thingie?"

The thing that really bother me though is that when people answer questions that you didn't ask.

          Newbie-"Do you guys know and good online manuals for LILO?"

          Snob-"Why are you using LILO, use Grub and be done with it you can find a Grub manual at http://whatever.com/"

Or how about this...
          NotSoNewbie-"I'm thinking about setting up an encrypted filesystem that can be mounted as a loopback device and I was wondering if anyone knows of a good howto."

          Snob-"Why are you going through all of that trouble, just use a thumbdrive and you can carry it with you, that's REAL security."

But that's not cut-and-paste, that's perfectly legitimate reprinting of an attributed source.

The parent article would be a non-issue if somebody had added a single line: "Information gathered in part from http://whatever.com/ main contributers so-and-so, such-and-such, and whats-his-face."

Yeah, and next thing you know, the president will put up a porn site at whitehouse.com and then switch it over to a mortgage scam.

Mr. Bush, I know you didn't do too good in school, but go to hxttp://al4a.com. That is the best start for a variety of porn. It is even has it categorized into the misleading url hxttp://al4a.com/movies.html where you can pick from 51 different categories in either pictures (if you net connection is already too clogged from CARNIVORE) or movies. You have the complete variety from teeny girls, gay sex. bi sex, fat girl sex (Clinton!!!), BSDM, tranny porn, midget porn, redheads, brunets, big titties, little titties, big cocks, the who 9 yards (the cocks are not that big though).

What is the big deal with porn? Its great. Watching professionals have sex is many times cheaper, better and safer than picking up the drunk girl left at the bar right after last call.

Porn stars are often very intelligent, humble, and adjusted people. Listen to them talk in an interview.

Actually, I would rather have Ron Jeremy in the Whitehouse over you.

What else do you want to know?

(Since when did slashdot start autolinking http://whatever.com/thingies?).

Post in HTML mode and do this. But don't do that! Google doesn't know what "this" is when it sees a hyperlink entitled such. Here's an article about why links entitled "click here" are a bad idea.

Both actually...

Why do people insist on putting spaces in hyperlinks?

I see this question too often. So pay attention children, cause I don't want to repeat this 9000 more times.

Slashdot inserts random spaces intentionally to prevent the "wwwwwwwide" exploit on their system, and the parent didn't post an actual hyperlink so much as an IRL. A hyperlink would look like this:

<A HREF="http://whatever.com">link</A>

And it would show up like this: link

But most people don't bother to do that when they cut and paste IRL's into their text, and Slashdot has to insert the spaces or else you get a hideous side-scrolling effect that messes up the format of the page.

Now you know.

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