Beware URL Shorteners
Posted June 25th, 2014 @ 06:57pm by Erik J. Barzeski
Scott Hanselman writes that This URL shortener situation is officially out of control.
I saw a URL today on Twitter to an article on Slate.com. It was a custom short URL - http://slate.me/1h0svt8 but since I was visiting it via Twitter, it was wrapped with Twitter's t.co URL, so I really started at http://t.co/sxSvcJnT2L.
When I visited it for the FIRST time, I got this lovely HTTP interaction. That's SEVEN HTTP 301s, count them, 7, before I get to the destination page.
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