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Re:What doctors on the front lines wish they’d known a month... by downerending on Saturday April 18, 2020 @06:41AM (#22906782)
Annoying to be sure, but you can circumvent the paywall by adding a period to the end of the domain name.
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Re:What doctors on the front lines wish they’d known a month... by thdrdt on Saturday April 18, 2020 @07:45AM (#22907040)
But you can run into certificate problems.
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Re:What doctors on the front lines wish they’d known a month... by dmitryminkovsky on Saturday April 18, 2020 @07:41AM (#22907021)
Nice hack! Hacking paywalls to get content is irritating though :(
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Re:What doctors on the front lines wish they’d known a month... by garmaine on Saturday April 18, 2020 @07:03AM (#22906866)
Why does this work?
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Re:What doctors on the front lines wish they’d known a month... by downerending on Saturday April 18, 2020 @07:46AM (#22907045)
It's a bug in the paywall code. Bank error in your favor. :-)
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Re:What doctors on the front lines wish they’d known a month... by dmitryminkovsky on Saturday April 18, 2020 @07:40AM (#22907018)
I believe that technically all domain names start with (we enter them backwards into the browser) a dot and that dot represents the DNS root. So it works in the browser if you add that root explicitly. No idea for sure why this works but my guess is because the paywall is somehow programmed based on window.location or some backend equivalent that works against the domain without the explicit root.
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