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Re:Make HTTP requests from your browser by gcb on Sunday January 08, 2012 @03:52PM (#3440488)
On mobile so i can't check myself: does The BROWSER makes the request by some clever way? Or simple server side script does it?
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Re:Make HTTP requests from your browser by dmn001 on Sunday January 08, 2012 @06:35PM (#3440885)
server side:

http://checkip.dyndns.com/ -> http://hurl.it/hurls/6fb24ac23d7c64a7edbcfceecd77c3d02586416...

127.0.0.1 -> http://hurl.it/hurls/7ad9448295a320acfe11160f0a8986fa591329f...

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Re:Make HTTP requests from your browser by lancefisher on Sunday January 08, 2012 @05:13PM (#3440672)
It's a ruby app, and uses curl on the server to make the request: https://github.com/defunkt/hurl/blob/master/app/app.rb
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