I'm not sure what you're doing, but if you don't have https pinning, then you can still see the hostname requested (but not the entire url)

@Student404Mus I think if the (even https) website you went to did an http(rather than https) call, then you'd see a request that that http call is making, because it's your local computer making an http call, and the http call would be to a different computer. You mentioned that you saw the bootstrap domain request.. I see that the https linkscape site makes an https request to a bootstrap domain so I suppose you'd still be able to see the domain via the IP,

or even some other means as you show maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.7.0/css/… but not the filepath and filename requested.

though you could see the https bootstrapcdp request from the HTML and javascript page you get from the https linkpeek.com website and that shows the file path and filename.

Some key logging software can do screenshots and would pick up the url in a browser. Ardamax key logger is one I tested out once years ago. it was less than 2MB!

ah ardamax is about £50 now!

@barlop eww keylogger

telerik.com/fiddler

Wouldn't something like this be better?

yeah I think so or some web browser extension

fiddler specifically and some web browser extension generally, was mentioned earlier in the discussion

is matrix offline?

hmm no

@Burgi Working for me - assuming you are referring to our off site chat.

i think @allquixotic's home server has fallen over

@Burgi Works for me. I also run a home server

yeah but i connect through his

That's why you need to have another identity too :P

Do you want to create an account through mine too?

Can someone explain when one would use a fifo file in Linux?

@CanadianLuke inter-app communication I guess?

@MichaelFrank I do shell scripting on Linux. Is writing to a temp file not the correct method for transferring data between commands?

@CanadianLuke Honestly, just looking at the man page seem to suggest that you might want both apps to modify the temp file at them same time?

There's also no file system reads/writes with a FIFO

So data between apps that stays in memory, which could be affected by disk I/O speed, with the possibility of writing to the file from multiple locations?

OK, I can see how that could be useful at my work... OK

I dunno man, I'm just going off the 1 paragraph I read in the man page ^_^;

@CanadianLuke Isn't that what pipes are for?

@DavidPostill That's what I thought.... But I usually only use pipes for /dev/null, or a file

@CanadianLuke Well you can use pipes between commands ...

True... But sometimes, it's easier piping out to a file, especially if you don't know what your pipeline will look like

ls | grep ... | unique for example

Then... You realize it Just Works (TM), and keep it that way

I saw an answer about mkfifo, so that's why I was looking into it