MIME types and atom bombs

I was recently doing some work with MIME types. As I was scrolling through a big list of them, one piqued my interest as it passed by: text/uri-list. The less interesting part: how this format works. It’s documented in a 1999 proposal marked “experimental” and is not an Internet standard “of any kind”. Basically, it’s a list of URLs separated by newlines, and it can have comments. Here’s what such a file might look like: # this is a comment https://example.com/ https://evanhahn.com/blog/ Seems ...

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