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Tell HN: Trafficmanager Clones Entire Visual Studio Code Docs

1 pointsby remuskaosalmost 3 years ago
I just DDG-ed some VSCode related things and landed on what seemed to be the official VSCode docs, including a download link to the IDE itself. Only on second glance I saw the link name https:&#x2F;&#x2F;vscode.trafficmanager.net&#x2F;docs&#x2F;remote&#x2F;containers instead of https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.visualstudio.com&#x2F;docs&#x2F;remote&#x2F;containers.<p>Now I know that there a lots of low quality SO and GH scrapers and clones, but this seems different in that it&#x27;s a complete copy, including logos and links to Microsoft.<p>I can&#x27;t imagine this site is legitimate, but apparently Microsoft Azure also has something called traffic manager.<p>So, what exactly is this site?

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ubermanalmost 3 years ago
whois for trafficmanager.net seems to suggest it is MS (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;who.is&#x2F;whois&#x2F;trafficmanager.net" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;who.is&#x2F;whois&#x2F;trafficmanager.net</a>).<p>Registrant Contact Information:<p>Organization : Microsoft Corporation<p>Address : One Microsoft Way,<p>City : Redmond<p>State &#x2F; Province : WA