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Norways largest online newspaper rickrolls all it’s readers

December 1st, 2008 ola Leave a comment Go to comments

However subtle, it must still count as a rickroll. The actual rolling is performed by inserting the response header X-Rick-Would-Never, with a content of “Run around and desert you” or “Give you up”.

How to test on Mac OS X or Linux:

oo@probo:~$ curl -s  –head http://www.vg.no | grep X-Rick
X-Rick-Would-Never: Run around and desert you
oo@probo:~$ curl -s  –head http://www.vg.no | grep X-Rick
X-Rick-Would-Never: Give you up

Kind of hilarious, imagine all the hundreds of thousands of people being rickrolled every single day!

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  1. December 10th, 2008 at 17:12 | #1

    I believe you are the first to notice this (as far as we know). :)

  2. December 11th, 2008 at 23:13 | #2

    As one of the colleagues (sales guy with techie background) at work put it: People that discover stuff like that can’t be really normal :)

  3. darren
    December 22nd, 2008 at 12:10 | #3

    What sort of person would browse the web *without* watching the headers…

  4. dewszaq
    December 30th, 2008 at 07:42 | #4

    Jeg kom også over denne for to-tre uker siden. Tenkte jeg skulle prøve å surfe litt med netcat. :P Er ikke et sted man forventer å bli rickrollet. ;)