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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I did some testing for domain redirects, I think the best way to do a redirect (so you can use https) is using your own server (there might be some places that offer free cloud servers too tho)

first set up a dns record, with a name of @ (the root domain), type of A, and 'data' with the server's public ip address. (there might be an easier way to do this on your domain provider, it just needs to direct the domain to your server with a standard webpage configuration, you might also want to set up www to redirect to the root using a CNAME type record, or for this I guess it would probably be faster just to add another type A record to the same server and put server_name xn-blk.gay, www.xn-blk.gay; in the config)

then install nginx, put the following in the http section in /etc/nginx.conf:

include /etc/nginx/conf.d/*.conf;

I have the following config for an example redirect server (/etc/nginx/conf.d/test.conf):

server {
    listen 80;
    server_name test.adrian.place;

    # Redirect HTTP to HTTPS
    return 301 https://xkcd.com$request_uri;
}

server {
    listen 443 ssl;
    server_name test.adrian.place;
    http2 on;

    # Redirect all requests to the target URL
    return 301 https://xkcd.com$request_uri;
}

and then enable and start the nginx systemd service, run certbot to set up https, and then reload the service

Edit: If it's a home server you'll need to set up port forwarding for 443 and 80 ofc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

all my hosting is handled through namecheap right now because i am both lazy and uneducated, BUT i’ve been looking into setting up a home server for unrelated reasons! i will absolutely be circling back to this comment ^^

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

you can do similar things for free with cloudflare, if you don’t have an aversion to using cloudflare

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

what’s the deal with cloudflare?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 20 hours ago

some people are averse to it because some hugely high percentage of all websites run through it - for privacy reasons, that’s not a good thing - if they enshittify, their data set could be more valuable than metas

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I was literally looking at punycode the other day. this is epic

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

this http://xn--bdk.gay/ should work :3

edit: huh wait it doesnt work when I click this link here but it works when I click it from my notes? XP

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

works in Firefox and Chrome on Windows, although it is very slow

in Chrome it seems to work when clicking, when opening in a new tab, when opening in a new window, but when opening in an incognito window it gives an "insecure" warning and doesn't let you proceed to the site

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you type “Thisisunsafe” you can bypass security warnings

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

It has a button to proceed though, it just does nothing when you click on it...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

ooh! it worked from my computer but not from my phone. Unicode must be weird or something on mobile🤔

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

HUH?! WAIT HOW DOES THAT WORK? :O

O wait u own the domain and u made it redirect to this comm? thats so cool!!! :3 that alternative url and the other in the comments dont work for me tho unless Im doing something wrong

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

it’s kinda finnacky. most browsers will parse either one fine, but sometimes just convincing them it IS a url can be weird.

i tried to hyperlink both versions in this comment, but clicking the links in the preview actually crashed voyager for me! perchance punycode doesn’t play well with everyone quite yet lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

An ending slash should make the browser parse as a uri

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

i actually already have stickers of this design from an unrelated project that never came to fruition