The Sneaky Gate

Named after the Sneaky Gate of Mechanicsburg which somehow is never at the same place twice, but somehow the Jägers know where to find it anyway, the Sneaky Gate has come to be the codename for a way to access Girl Genius strips before they are officially put online. The process is simple: copy the URL address of a strip's picture in your browser's address bar, and you can clearly see that the name is of the form ggmainYYYYMMDD.jpg. Merely modify the date to that of the day you want to access in advance, and if the file has already been uploaded, it will load. (Double-page spreads sometimes are labeled ggmainYYYYMMDDa.jpg, the Sneaky Gate is then to change it to ggmainYYYYMMDDb.jpg.)

Usually, the wait between the moment the file is uploaded and the moment the comic is officially online is less than four hours, so it's a bit pointless. However, when the Foglios go to conventions and as such are deprived of Internet access for several days, the comics are uploaded with a large advance, allowing avid sneaky-gaters to, for example, get the Monday strip on a Friday. The stratagem to avoid the long wait until Monday backfires when they discover that now they have to wait until Wednesday to get new content...