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The Test (www.smbc-comics.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by ViperActual@sh.itjust.works to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

~~Uhm, if the owner of the site is here, the "random" button presents you with an xml.~~

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Not for me. Did you maybe find an easter egg?

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh right, i have third-party scripts blocked by default on mobile. Now it works.

Still, uh, why was it made that way, that it needs JS to random-load a page?

[-] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 9 points 2 months ago

Without JS the button points to the RSS feed. This serves as a placeholder. The button was most likely copied and pasted.

Upon page load the website makes a call to the /rand.php endpoint, which returns a date in ISO8601 format. That is then used to produce the actual link.

				<script>
		$.get("/rand.php",function(data){
			$('.cc-navaux').attr('href','https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/' + data);
		});
		</script>

(lines 172ff. of the HTML source) Why? Ask the author.

this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2024

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