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Borg3 on Jan 22, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: File Systems: The Original Hypermedia

O really? It seems people forgot about userdir.path (or similar). So user can expose whatever he wants via: https://emaildomain.com/~user/

xnx on Jan 22, 2025 [–]

Exactly. This convention is virtually non existent on the web in 2025.

o11c on Jan 23, 2025 | | [–]

Same-origin security problems kind of killed `https://host.tld/~user` in favor of `https://user.host.tld`.

yaj54 on Jan 23, 2025 | | [–]

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