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Skullgrid@lemmy.world 15 days ago
This is the second time I’ve hit things about example.com
When I am going to test an email sender soon, what domain should I friggin use for the test addresses? I want the mails I use for fake test data to not link back to me personally, unless I am specifically looking to receive and look at said mail.
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BetterDev@programming.dev 15 days ago
I use something like user@invalid
Or user@domain.invalid
invalid a reserved TLD meant for basically this exact use-case.
See RFC 2606
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GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip 15 days ago
Is iana retarded? Why would the example page need any JavaScript at all
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milliams@lemmy.world 15 days ago
I was going to be rude, but I thought I’d just do you the courtesy and paste the relevant section from the article:
As it tends to be heavily trafficked, the overall bandwidth is a key consideration, and to that end one of the changes we made this week was to split the page content into a more basic page, augmented by a separate Javascript file with additional content beyond that. Since most of the traffic to the site is automated it tends not to fetch the Javascript file, reducing overall data requirements.
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GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip 15 days ago
It’s a simple html page with 1 paragraph of text. Entire page load shouldn’t exceed 10Kb
urushitan 漆たん@kakera.kintsugi.moe 15 days ago
Yeah specifically the JS holds translated versions of the sentence “This domain is for use in documentation examples without needing permission. This is not a service; avoid relying on it for testing and monitoring purposes.” The raw HTML returns just that + CSS. The JS injects translations of that sentence in multiple languages
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coolmojo@lemmy.world 15 days ago
In my opinion example.com should just return HTTP 418 I’m a teapot status response code.
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NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 15 days ago
That’d confuse the hell out of me if i missed a single config line when updating defaults. Maybe we could have a “you didn’t update all the defaults ya dummy” status code that only example.com uses
dan@upvote.au 16 days ago
I’m very curious about how much bandwidth it consumes.
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 15 days ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s over 1Gbps.
The site is about 2kB. In order to consume 1Gbps it would need about 62 000 visitors every second, assuming no one uses any kind of cache or anything. Or 5,4 billion visitors daily. Not impossible, but I’d guess the real number isn’t quite that much.
dan@upvote.au 15 days ago
I was thinking more about automated usage. There’s probably a lot of devices that hit it to check for internet connectivity.
rozodru@piefed.world 15 days ago
probably a hell of a lot. I do a lot of travelling for work and thus I’m always connecting to open wifi spots (with a vpn naturally) and many times my browser won’t pick up the capture portal automatically so I use example.com or neverssl.com to trigger the capture portal. It’s also the site I use to a very quick/dirty internet test.
I imagine most people use it the same way.