[HN Gopher] XINF
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       XINF
        
       Author : ZeroTerabytes
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2023-04-22 14:18 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (xinf.dev)
 (TXT) w3m dump (xinf.dev)
        
       | jkrubin wrote:
       | Can you add an 'iodd' endpoint? Would be very helpful to a
       | project I am working on.
        
         | cjohnson318 wrote:
         | I'm curious, what would an "iodd" endpoint be?
        
           | dgacmu wrote:
           | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16901188
        
       | TickleSteve wrote:
       | How about: http://leftpad.dev
        
       | jstanley wrote:
       | The "echo" endpoint supposedly "returns what you sent to the
       | server", but the output includes X-Forwarded-For headers that are
       | obviously part of your internal HTTP routing and are not part of
       | what the client sent to the server, as well as various other
       | headers not sent by my client.
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       | Also, the "myip" endpoint returns 2 different IP addresses. One
       | is mine, the other is yours.
        
       | ZeroTerabytes wrote:
       | A simple JSON api written in Go, that does a lot of small but
       | useful stuff, such as: - Numbers to Words! - Name Generator for
       | your 235231759082318th side project GitHub repository! - Echoing
       | what you sent to the server, like a little cave :D - Open
       | location/Plus codes from coordinates! - Hashing, because that's
       | always nice. - Random stuff!
        
         | lucb1e wrote:
         | > A simple JSON api written in Go, that does a lot of small but
         | useful stuff, such as:
         | 
         | > - Numbers to Words!
         | 
         | > - Name Generator for your 235231759082318th side project
         | GitHub repository!
         | 
         | > - Echoing what you sent to the server, like a little cave :D
         | 
         | > - Open location/Plus codes from coordinates!
         | 
         | > - Hashing, because that's always nice.
         | 
         | > - Random stuff!
        
       | bastawhiz wrote:
       | Who is the demographic for this? Essentially all of the
       | functionality here is available in the standard library for most
       | languages. If not, you can use a library that's probably pretty
       | small and doesn't rely on some third party system that you have
       | no control over. It's certainly not about trust: if you don't
       | trust your computer's own random number generator, how can you
       | trust a (TLS encrypted???) HTTP connection to some other system?
        
         | Ocha wrote:
         | It might be useful in shell scripts with jq.
        
           | spicybright wrote:
           | As long as the site never goes down...
        
             | RockRobotRock wrote:
             | That applies to every website
        
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