CURLs in the Wild

It used to be such a great thing when you would come across a Vignette CURL on a site that you didn't know or expect to be a customer site. Spotting CURLs in the wild was a sport!

@Charlie Wood once wrote a post explaining what the components of a CURL meant.

http://static.userland.com/userLandDiscussArchive/msg003891.html

Its been awhile since I've spotted a wild CURL. Anyone know of remaining live sites?

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Jonathan Rosenberg

Apr 28, 2021

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I must confess to being the originator of that CURL format.

Erik Josowitz

Apr 28, 2021

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I have to admit, Jonathan, that one of the first things I did once I learned the CURL structure at Vignette was to go to CNET and see what I could learn by plugging things into the url with a 1,

Erik Josowitz

Jan 21, 2021

You used to be able to search Google with inurl:"/0,*" and get them. Now that returns nothing...

Jan 21, 2021

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I haven't run into a new one in a while but ... [ scans email ] ... ah, it seems I've remarked on at least two I've encountered, once as recently as 2019.

This first one:

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1653653,00.html

curiously redirects immediately to another curl-looking URL "0,33009,1653653,00.html" ... and if you view source it starts with:

The other one I know of also now redirects (to a non-CURL URL):

https://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20352313,00.html

Matthew Reiser

Jan 18, 2021

Gotta love the preamble from VictorL: "Though StoryServer is not as bad as others..." :-)

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CURLs in the Wild