Look at any sites in the mirror

Just try this fantastic thing . Take any site for example:

www.google.com and
append .mirror.sytes.org to it.

So that it becomes www.google.com.mirror.sytes.org and watch the fun.

My god, to what extent do people go :)

The One You Loved (TOYL)
Friday, May 7, 2004

They should reverse the images too :P

Jack of all
Friday, May 7, 2004

From what I can tell, they do.

BadgerBadgerBadger
Friday, May 7, 2004

Here is another google mirror site:

www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/

Patrik
Friday, May 7, 2004

Perhaps someody can explain to me why the Saudi government blocks all of these links.

Stephen Jones
Friday, May 7, 2004

I would have thought you wouldn't be surprised by this sort of thing by now, Stephen.

Duncan Smart
Friday, May 7, 2004

<evil grin>
interesting idea. Write a Mozilla addon that appends the .mirror.syte.org to every url request, and have lot of fun with the interns at work.

<evil grin>

Tapiwa
Friday, May 7, 2004

That's fun. Things start to slow down if you do a Google -- I mean elgooG -- image search.

MR
Friday, May 7, 2004

Actually, there is normally a reason, and I normally come across a block because of a communications error.

If you can get to any site through mirrors.sytes.org then they will have blocked it so you can't get in indirectly to other banned sites. They have done this with aol addresses, anonymizers and Google cache.

Stephen Jones
Friday, May 7, 2004

I've tried holding up the url on a bit of paper to the screen, but that doesn't seem to work.

Simon Lucy
Friday, May 7, 2004

Oddly enough, http://mirror.sytes.org.mirror.sytes.org won't return a mirror image.

Russell Thackston
Friday, May 7, 2004

mirrors are always lying

Saturday, May 8, 2004

Steven,

A friend  of a friend, is supposed to be running some service where you surf the web via email. Not sure how it works, but apparently his biggest customers are office types surfing porn sites.

Would a service like that also be blocked by the Saudis?

Tapiwa
Saturday, May 8, 2004

Apologies, that last post was directed at Stephen Jones and not Steven. My bad!

Tapiwa
Saturday, May 8, 2004

Dear Tapiwa,
                  I'm sure they would try and find some way of blocking it if they knew about it. If the service is free give me more details.

Stephen Jones
Monday, May 10, 2004

seems to be down.  Maybe they got Joel'ed?

Will
Monday, May 10, 2004

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