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Re:Userdir URLs like https://example.org/~username/ are dang... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @08:04AM (#22812143)
It's a reasonable hack though. Where else do you put "how to interact with this domain" data, you can't serve that data (eg via http) because clients need to already know how to interact with that domain before they interact with that domain?

How would you do it?

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Re:Userdir URLs like https://example.org/~username/ are dang... by yoloClin on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @05:03PM (#22817108)
Transport encryption with PKI.
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