On 2025-11-25, Crystal Kolipe <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2025 at 06:17:59AM +0700, [email protected] wrote: >> I sent the link of revision 1.4 of ed.c to someone else >> and they confirmed they are redirected. >> (others files and revisions of ed.c don't redirect me) > > The redirect usually happens when your browser doesn't supply a referer http > header. > > It's an anti-scraping mechanism because automated bots were creating a heavy > load on the server, (which runs a perl script to create each custom diff).
the redirect to theannoyingsite wasn't a great joke in the first place though and it would be better redirecting to something giving the poor user some idea about what's going on. -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
