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Comment by sergers | Hacker News Reader

How's this front page material on HN...

Oh no, apple.com is unavailable - breaking news, affects noone?

Not for nothing, it's a pretty rare occurrence to see a triple-a company with a white page error on its home domain, like seeing a whale or something.

its not the first time for this to occur (to other sites and apple earliar this year atleast) and has been answered by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207316

akamai issue and the hash is a time stamp

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/apple.com

this is not some shitty grad student's website you know. you don't expect shit like this to happen...

that's how this is breaking news/front page news.

it affects customers who want to preorder their phones

It makes my Sauce Labs tests on iOS devices fail, and I bet other people's fail as well.

I think the simulators usually try to load apple.com for some reason before the page under test, so it might just be selenium waiting forever for apple.com to load.

I'm interested in their References -- it looks like each hit is a new hash, so they store that so they can refer to it. I don't know much about this side of stuff so it'll be interesting to know why they do that, or what the upside is.

It's probably just sent as context along the whole chain of requests and logged in wire logs.

Those sorts of request ids are usually just for piecing back together what happened from logfiles in my experience.

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