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Host Europe Group's robots.txt still makes me chuckle: http://mirrors.uk.heg.com/robots.txt

Asiimov's Three Laws of Robotics, right?

yes

Prompted me to do a little experimentation with google query parameters. Some potentially concerning stuff out there...

This one seems offline, but a typical example:

ftp://asapdata.arc.nasa.gov/incoming/BOB/HyspIRI/data-bob/00_README.MASTERweb_updating.txt

  3. Login to MASTER database:
    http://asterdb.jpl.nasa.gov/log/dbstart.asp

  a. User: eric; Password: Upd8t3r

Would you mind sharing the google query? Getting to this with a google query seems magical!

https://www.exploit-db.com/google-hacking-database/ gives some more tips.

"user * password *" site:nasa.gov filetype:txt

And I just stumbled upon this:

http://www.nackerhews.com/item?id=11549946

But that's pretty bad!

Maybe it's on their intranet? It doesn't seem to be accessible.

Nevermind, just got to it :P.

Are you sure that's a good idea? This seems to be something to do with flight paths and the Ames research centre...

Didn't log in. Don't want to. Just wanted to see if the URL returned anything.

Seems like it's working to me, what do you mean by offline?

And all of a sudden the FBI has a lot of IP addresses to follow-up...

I should note that I did alert the sysadmin and he told me he was taking it down and would figure out how to secure it.

Whohoo! NASA makes a web page that is smaller than the software that took Apollo to the moon.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160422155210/https://www.nasa....

Can someone explain the purpose of this page? I'm feeling a little out of the loop at the moment...

I'm sorry you received downvotes for asking a question.

Based on the url (test.html), I would imagine this was just someone's quick one-off attempt to see if something worked that ended up getting left behind.

Edit: Looks like this was already answered downthread in the time that I took reading the comments. Whoops.

whatup

No, really... what is the point of this page?

Probably someone testing their server configuration and forgot to remove it.

It seems like it's not really all that interesting...

Interesting enough for you to spend 5 minutes of your life commenting. I agree that it's a bit low on nutrition though. Funny to see stuff like this once in a while, but I wouldn't want the front page to get clogged up with this kind of nonsense.

Yeah, but only because I thought there was something to it, and also it was a Friday night :-)

It did lead to some interesting discussions, so I'm not criticising - just a little disappointed!

Did you really need someone to explain the purpose of a file called test.html? Seems like the filename explains it.

Why is that so interesting?

Why does it matter how interesting it is? It's humorous and we had some fun with it.

You just answered my question. Cheers.

It's about Updog!

I'd say the test ran optimally.

Nominally.

Absolutely!

WaaS

"We used to spend time thinking about uptime and hardware costs for our silly test pages. No more!"

Whatup as a service?

Why did they bother to wrap it in a <div> tag but have no body or even html tag?

Because it's still somewhat structured instead of not structured?

Why not a <span> or a <dingleberry> then? I think this is the key thing to discuss here.

<blink>whatup</blink>

><dingleberry>

Now that's semantic html

So I have the same testing plan as astronauts?

Only if you are developing in space.

I like rfc2812 style convo better, like the one used in Redis PING: http://redis.io/commands/ping

Updated: to reflect eli's help on origin of command style. Btw, why did someone down-vote me on this?

That command sequence is much older than Redis: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2812#page-37

Thanks for the reference.

Who would I contact to make a nasa related html5 game for that page? Anybody from nasa here?

Now it 404s. Good while it lasted.

For now, the sun, later, the moon.

It's all coplanar in the solar system so let's go with the traditional answer, "the sky."

Truth be told that was the original response I was going to go with, and it just felt a little off. However, it is indeed quite accurate. 5 year old me would approve.

Only 191 bytes, nice job NASA.

Ha! My initial reaction at the combination of "Whatup" and .gov TLD[1] was that this is a government sanctioned WhatsApp replacement.

[1]: That is before realizing that it's nasa.gov

That would be one without encryption...

Oh I'm sure it'd have encryption. Heck it wouldn't even have any backdoors either. Only sidedoors ...

ah, they just changed. 404'd now.

The closest point in a comet’s orbit to the Sun is called “perihelion”. The most distant point is called “aphelion”.

Spaaaaaaaace!

Bummer, looks like they took it down.

Thank goodness for the Wayback Machine!

fuck yea

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