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Tell HN: Trafficmanager Clones Entire Visual Studio Code Docs

by remuskaos on 7/28/22, 1:27 PM with 1 comments

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://vscode.trafficmanager.net/docs/remote/containers instead of https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/remote/containers.

Now I know that there a lots of low quality SO and GH scrapers and clones, but this seems different in that it's a complete copy, including logos and links to Microsoft.

I can't imagine this site is legitimate, but apparently Microsoft Azure also has something called traffic manager.

So, what exactly is this site?

  • by uberman on 7/28/22, 1:34 PM

    whois for trafficmanager.net seems to suggest it is MS (https://who.is/whois/trafficmanager.net).

    Registrant Contact Information:

    Organization : Microsoft Corporation

    Address : One Microsoft Way,

    City : Redmond

    State / Province : WA