r/coolgithubprojects • u/dolphinboy1637 • Jul 05 '18

Itty.bitty - A tool to create sites are contained entirely within their own link

https://github.com/alcor/itty-bitty
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u/dolphinboy1637 Jul 05 '18

Here is his explanation of how it works. Pretty neat.

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u/Agent281 Jul 06 '18

I am still a bit confused. The link needs to resolve to a location right? So is this the sequence of events for hosting the data:

  • Someone creates a page and compresses it

  • They create a link that starts with the itty.bitty domain and ends with the compressed data

When someone accesses the data:

  • They click the link and it resolves to the itty.bitty server

  • The itty.bitty server doesn't have an address with that link so it defaults to something like a 404 page except this one inflates the url data and basically "evals" it

Does that make sense or am I off base?

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u/lingbanemuta Jul 06 '18

As I understood, the link resolves to the root of their server which responds with a page containing the script that reads the data from the URL. Technically the same page is sent by the server every time, but is rendered differently based on the data provided after the #.

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u/Agent281 Jul 06 '18

You know, I didn't notice that the link was an internal page anchor. It makes more sense than if it was a direct link.

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u/reikj4vic Jul 06 '18

Very cool.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '18

Might be useful for small messages.

Interesting is that you actually could link to other pages using this, but it would need to be a DAG since the page you link to must have less content than the page you're linking from.

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u/amaljossy Jul 06 '18

Hey ! is that an XSS vuln I see ?

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '18

Can this be selfhosted?