Network & Files
Look up DNS records for a name, work out a subnet from a prefix, see the address and network this site sees your connection arriving from, and open a zip archive to inspect what is inside it before extracting anything.
Two of these are the site’s only exceptions to local processing, and they are labelled: a DNS query and reading your own address both require a server, so they are answered by this site’s own rather than by a third-party lookup service that would log your visit. Archive inspection is local, which is the safe way to look inside a zip you were sent before trusting its contents.
The other two read what a message or a response carries. Raw email headers hold the delivery chain with the delay at each hop, and the SPF, DKIM and DMARC results exactly as the receiving server recorded them — which is how you tell a forged sender from a real one. HTTP response headers hold the security and caching decisions a site has made, and reading them back is the quickest way to find the one that is missing. A .eml file holds the whole message — both bodies, every attachment and the MIME tree — and opening one here never fetches a remote image, so the sender learns nothing.
Then there are the three files that decide how a site is crawled and where its URLs go, none of which tells you it is wrong: a robots.txt rule blocks a URL you meant to keep, a sitemap.xml lists a relative URL or a malformed lastmod, an .htaccess redirect loops. Each of those is a rule you can only really check by running a URL through it and seeing which line fired — which is what these do. nginx has its own tester, which follows a request through server choice, location precedence and rewrite, hop after hop.
A MAC address rounds it out: five IEEE registries, what the address bits say about it, and the EUI-64 or IPv6 link-local form it becomes.
And a link rewritten by an email security service can be read without opening it: Microsoft 365 and Proofpoint protection links, redirects and the like unwrapped layer by layer to the address underneath, with the usual phishing tricks pointed out.