On: Itty Bitty: Sites contained within their own links

[waisbrot]

The link says

> nothing is sent to–or stored on–this server

but isn't it the case that the entire page is sent to bitty.site as part of the HTTP request?

[sirsuki → waisbrot]

No, the page content is never sent to the server. all the server does is serve a static HTML page with some javascript. The javascript reads the compressed encoded data in the URL (the fragment which browsers never send to the server during a request) and then it decodes the data and writes the data to the current DOM.

All content data is stored in the link itself and never seen by the itty.bitty server.

[brod → waisbrot]

most http clients (browsers included) will omit url data after the # character, eg:

`https://itty.bitty.site/#About/XQAAAAKrCQAAA...`

only sends

`https://itty.bitty.site/`

to the server.

[emp_ → waisbrot]

The location.hash (#About...) is not sent to the server, which is where the content is rendered from.