Update the blog post
Signed-off-by: Jacob Kiers <jacob@jacobkiers.net>
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This works because of [DNS over HTTPS] for which there is an [API from Cloudflare].
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Comments at [Hacker News, apparently][HN].
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## How it works
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That API is used to load the contents of this page, essentially like this:
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@ -62,6 +64,20 @@ These records are base64 encoded content, so when concatenated and decoded, they
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Please see the [source code] for the details.
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## FAQ
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### Why, though?
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In short: just because I could. It was one of those ideas I was wondering idly about, and I decided to just try it.
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### Has it any practical use?
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It is not intended to have any. Since DNS records are fairly small, serving images or something would quickly start
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consuming 100s of requests per second. I wouldn't want to do that to Cloudflare 😉
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It would be an interesting experiment to see how feasible that is.
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[source code]: https://github.com/jacobkiers/html-over-dns "Yes, the title is a pun..."
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[DNS over HTTPS]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS
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[API from Cloudflare]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/dns-over-https/json-format
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[API from Cloudflare]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/1.1.1.1/dns-over-https/json-format
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[HN]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28218406
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