Harvard’s Asian Problem

Re:Harvard’s Asian Problem by tokenizerrr on Saturday November 22, 2014 @11:30PM (#8647809)

To bypass the paywall: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...

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Re:Harvard’s Asian Problem by ocb on Saturday November 22, 2014 @11:43PM (#8647828)

On my Mac this doesn't work on Safari but does work on Chrome. Interesting!

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Re:Harvard’s Asian Problem by pickle27 on Sunday November 23, 2014 @12:51AM (#8647945)

can you explain how this works?

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Re:Harvard’s Asian Problem by jacalata on Sunday November 23, 2014 @01:04AM (#8647973)

I think that if you want google to be able to index the article text, then the article has to be accessible from the search result - you can't show different pages to google's robot than to human visitors or they'll block you. So the paywall is not allowed to kick in if you are coming directly from google. (Works for the NYT as well, probably anywhere else that is indexed on google too).

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Re:Harvard’s Asian Problem by gizmo686 on Sunday November 23, 2014 @01:01AM (#8647967)

http includes a referer field that tells a webserver what page linked you to it. It is therefore possible for the server to disable the paywall for visitors who arrive through google.

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Re:Harvard’s Asian Problem by gamesbrainiac on Sunday November 23, 2014 @12:18AM (#8647885)

If you can access it, just save it via the internet archive.

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Re:Harvard’s Asian Problem by greglindahl on Sunday November 23, 2014 @12:34AM (#8647913)

IA has 4 copies of this page. 3 are CAPTCHA challenges, and the 4th throws an error message. Why on earth did you think this might work without testing it yourself?

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