Why not just serve plain HTML pages like C2 wiki used to do. Why use Javascript and Google Analytics. Why ask why.
Fact: It took more work for someone to convert the HTML to JSON, write the Javascript and set up the proxy than it did for me to write a shell script.
Not sure what were the benefit(s) to that person versus the one-time cost of switching away from plain HTML to requiring Javascript. No doubt he deemed it worth the time to set up.
What I do know is the benefit to me versus the one-time cost of writing a shell script. It means I do not need to use Javascript or submit to Google Analytics. I do not even need internet access once I have downloaded the C2 wiki, converted it to text and stored it on local media. If it one day disappears from the web and the IA, I still have a copy. This wiki is a piece of history and it is not changing.
Apologies for the error with the quotes. Here is a fix
Fact: It took more work for someone to convert the HTML to JSON, write the Javascript and set up the proxy than it did for me to write a shell script.
Not sure what were the benefit(s) to that person versus the one-time cost of switching away from plain HTML to requiring Javascript. No doubt he deemed it worth the time to set up.
What I do know is the benefit to me versus the one-time cost of writing a shell script. It means I do not need to use Javascript or submit to Google Analytics. I do not even need internet access once I have downloaded the C2 wiki, converted it to text and stored it on local media. If it one day disappears from the web and the IA, I still have a copy. This wiki is a piece of history and it is not changing.
Apologies for the error with the quotes. Here is a fix
cat > 1.sed
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