Show HN: Web pages stored entirely in the URL

Re:Show HN: Web pages stored entirely in the URL by the_pwner224 on Sunday June 30, 2019 @10:48AM (#20318479)

Sharing a snippet of text is much easier than sharing a file.

Telling a normal person to click that link (or, go to decoder.com and paste this text into there, for a more distributed version) is much easier than getting them to view the HTML.

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Re:Show HN: Web pages stored entirely in the URL by ziftface on Sunday June 30, 2019 @11:31AM (#20318712)

But why not just share the raw text then? In a situation where you would need to distribute web pages without a host, presumably to share vital information, couldn't you just share the raw text via the same medium you use to send the link?

I still think this is really interesting though.

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Re:Show HN: Web pages stored entirely in the URL by _lflx on Sunday June 30, 2019 @11:39AM (#20318753)

Because you can distribute web forms that post data to locations for aggregation of standardized data. Useful for organizing strikes and other civil disobedience.

Think about the tools a modern political campaign uses, it would be somewhat similar.

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Re:Show HN: Web pages stored entirely in the URL by JetSpiegel on Monday July 01, 2019 @09:49AM (#20325199)

If you need to have a host receiving that data, why not serve the page from that host?

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Re:Show HN: Web pages stored entirely in the URL by tzakrajs on Monday July 01, 2019 @09:44PM (#20331422)

Good point, I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that. Perhaps the data from the form could get turned into an email or sms draft instead of an HTTP action.

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Re:Show HN: Web pages stored entirely in the URL by chiefalchemist on Sunday June 30, 2019 @11:50AM (#20318812)

Thx. Makes sense.

But aren't there any other encoding standards? Perhaps also with encryption?

I'm not knocking this url idea. Simply what-if'ing other possibilities.

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