Someone told me that I was somehow following @html, I didn't know who @html is, So when I went to @html, it took me to a 403 Page. Now I've spent my time figuring out why this happened, I tried searching the internet, to see if anyone else has figured out what this user is, and it just seems like I hit to a dead end.




So is anyone here gonna explain what this mysterious user is?



And why does it take me to a 403 page when I try to access it?

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I think the username messes with the link or something like that.

Mr_PenguinAlex wrote:

I think the username messes with the link or something like that.

and how would it do that?

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and also, another question…

Why couldn't it use the 403 page?

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Jacobwworkman wrote:

Mr_PenguinAlex wrote:

I think the username messes with the link or something like that.

and how would it do that?

HTML is a programming language that is used to code basically every webpage on the internet. the name @html probably messes with filesystems or creates an error.

Jacobwworkman wrote:

and also, another question…

Why couldn't it use the 403 page?

Some pages don't redirect to the 403 page even though they are 403s.

ScratchCatHELLO wrote:

Jacobwworkman wrote:

Mr_PenguinAlex wrote:

I think the username messes with the link or something like that.

and how would it do that?

HTML is a programming language that is used to code basically every webpage on the internet. the name @html probably messes with filesystems or creates an error.

Jacobwworkman wrote:

and also, another question…

Why couldn't it use the 403 page?

Some pages don't redirect to the 403 page even though they are 403s.

That makes sense… but..

how was I able to follow @html? I can't remember when I followed them and how I did!

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All scratch.mit.edu URLs ending in “html”—like scratch.mit.edu/users/html or scratch.mit.edu/index.html—seem to make a 403 error, except just plain scratch.mit.edu/html (404), unless the stuff between “scratch.mit.edu/” and “html” contains broken code (400; scratch.mit.edu/%E5html, scratch.mit.edu/%ED%A0%80html).

mlcreater wrote:

All scratch.mit.edu URLs ending in “html”—like scratch.mit.edu/users/html or scratch.mit.edu/index.html—seem to make a 403 error, except just plain scratch.mit.edu/html (404), unless the stuff between “scratch.mit.edu/” and “html” contains broken code (400; scratch.mit.edu/%E5html, scratch.mit.edu/%ED%A0%80html).

https://scratch.mit.edu/so_I_can_do_something_like_this?_____html

It takes me to a 403 page.

So no matter what I put, it gets very weird and takes you to a 403 page


https://scratch.mit.edu/<text>html

https://scratch.mit.edu/clickheretogeta403pagemadewithpurehtml

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Hold up. https://scratch.mit.edu/?.html takes you to the home page!

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idk but i found someone with the user name or is it wrong ;-; https://scratch.mit.edu/users/hmtl/

Achusuresh wrote:

idk but i found someone with the user name or is it wrong ;-; https://scratch.mit.edu/users/hmtl/

“hmtl” is not html.

It isn't the same. the tm is swapped. So it doesn't count.

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Jacobwworkman wrote:

That makes sense… but..

how was I able to follow @html? I can't remember when I followed them and how I did!

You were once able to go to the profile. I followed them but it won't show

Jacobwworkman wrote:

Hold up. https://scratch.mit.edu/?.html takes you to the home page!

The Internet interprets URLs with ? in them as ending just before the ?, so the text after the ? describes additional information about the page that one is trying to access.

For example, https://scratch.mit.edu/users/griffpatch/followers/?page=4000 tells scratch.mit.edu to find the page “/users/griffpatch/followers/”, remember that that is the list for @griffpatch's followers, then find the 4000th page, and send it securely (https).

https://scratch.mit.edu/?.html tells scratch.mit.edu to find the page “/”, remember that that is the front page, then find the normal document because ".html" was not meaningful, and send it securely.

https://www.google.com/search?q=scratch tells www.google.com to find the page “/search”, remember that that is the search results page, then find the search results for the query "scratch", and sent it securely.

To get the page “/?.html”, one would navigate to scratch.mit.edu/%2F.html

You can see html's followers in here and you're in it!

ninjaMAR wrote:

Jacobwworkman wrote:

That makes sense… but..

how was I able to follow @html? I can't remember when I followed them and how I did!

You were once able to go to the profile. I followed them but it won't show

huh

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mlcreater wrote:

Jacobwworkman wrote:

Hold up. https://scratch.mit.edu/?.html takes you to the home page!

The Internet interprets URLs with ? in them as ending just before the ?, so the text after the ? describes additional information about the page that one is trying to access.

For example, https://scratch.mit.edu/users/griffpatch/followers/?page=4000 tells scratch.mit.edu to find the page “/users/griffpatch/followers/”, remember that that is the list for @griffpatch's followers, then find the 4000th page, and send it securely (https).

https://scratch.mit.edu/?.html tells scratch.mit.edu to find the page “/”, remember that that is the front page, then find the normal document because ".html" was not meaningful, and send it securely.

https://www.google.com/search?q=scratch tells www.google.com to find the page “/search”, remember that that is the search results page, then find the search results for the query "scratch", and sent it securely.

huh i see

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Rendangbike2 wrote:

You can see html's followers in here and you're in it!

I feel amazed by this tbh.

Honestly, I'm expecting a lot of people going on my profile and telling me how I followed html, lol

One day, that will happen. Just one day.


Ya know, I'm cool with this.

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Lets just see what happens, lol

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it's just a username that messes with the url, try doing it with and without a / at the end to get two different results

with the / (gives you the regular 403 page), and without the / (gives you the “forbidden” error)