This is not project-related; I just wanted to quickly share a recent discovery that might not have been apparent to most, and certainly never was to me:
If you copy / paste the below link at the start of a URL (such as a Wikipedia link, or a random article about bicycles), it will automatically call up the Wayback Machine's most recent saved version of that webpage (usually anywhere from a few days old to a few hours old), and will always bypass the site's arbitrary security hoops, provided that the browser can play nice withthe incomprehensible digital soup that is modern website code, which Leopard WebKit / Safari 11.0.4 most of the time does.
If the Wayback Machine complains that the webpage has not yet been saved, just take an extra 10 seconds to anonymously archive it (using the button they conveniently provide below the message), and then proceed to view the newly archived version as intended.
For the smoothest experience, I find that it is best to save this URL string as a text file on the desktop, and then use a series of keyboard commands to swiftly splice it in whenever next visiting a TLS 1.3 site. For example:
Open file > Cmd + A > Cmd + C > Select Safari URL bar > Cmd + A > Left arrow key > Cmd + V > Enter
This will definitely improve my own workflow going forward ... so maybe it will improve others' as well. Give it a try.
If you copy / paste the below link at the start of a URL (such as a Wikipedia link, or a random article about bicycles), it will automatically call up the Wayback Machine's most recent saved version of that webpage (usually anywhere from a few days old to a few hours old), and will always bypass the site's arbitrary security hoops, provided that the browser can play nice with
Code:
http://web.archive.org/web/20301231000000/If the Wayback Machine complains that the webpage has not yet been saved, just take an extra 10 seconds to anonymously archive it (using the button they conveniently provide below the message), and then proceed to view the newly archived version as intended.
For the smoothest experience, I find that it is best to save this URL string as a text file on the desktop, and then use a series of keyboard commands to swiftly splice it in whenever next visiting a TLS 1.3 site. For example:
Open file > Cmd + A > Cmd + C > Select Safari URL bar > Cmd + A > Left arrow key > Cmd + V > Enter
This will definitely improve my own workflow going forward ... so maybe it will improve others' as well. Give it a try.
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