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JoshTripletttoday at 4:49 AM2 repliesview on HN

> entering the characters http://www.longbets.org/601 into the address bar of a web browser or command line tool (like curl)

The part of this that's most likely to fail at some point is the "http://".


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ludwiktoday at 5:22 AM

In my mind, the part that is most likely to fail is "return an HTML document that still contains the following text." Nowadays, more and more "HTML documents" do not contain any content at all, just some JavaScript that is responsible for then fetching and displaying the content.

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ywaintoday at 4:59 AM

The detailed terms of the bet include this:

> A 301 redirect from www.longbets.org/601 to a different URL containing that text would also fulfill those conditions.

I assume this would cover the HTTP->HTTPS redirect scenario.

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