Comments on: loops and stretching with urlshorteners… http://blog.flo.cx/2009/06/loops-and-stretching-with-urlshorteners/ Tech, Food, Life Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:07:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Steven Burn http://blog.flo.cx/2009/06/loops-and-stretching-with-urlshorteners/comment-page-1/#comment-650 Steven Burn Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:06:14 +0000 http://blog.flo.cx/?p=1493#comment-650 I'm the developer/owner of surl.co.uk, and wanted to thank you for mentioning this. I've modified the sURL service to prevent this, and would welcome your testing to verify the routines I've put in place are sufficient (I've done limited testing, but verification is always welcome) I’m the developer/owner of surl.co.uk, and wanted to thank you for mentioning this. I’ve modified the sURL service to prevent this, and would welcome your testing to verify the routines I’ve put in place are sufficient (I’ve done limited testing, but verification is always welcome)

]]> By: Julien http://blog.flo.cx/2009/06/loops-and-stretching-with-urlshorteners/comment-page-1/#comment-603 Julien Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:42:41 +0000 http://blog.flo.cx/?p=1493#comment-603 I'm the creator of Safe.mn. You have a good point. Safe.mn always redirect the user to the final URL if there are less than 5 redirections. Now, if there are more than 5 redirections, it will display a warning to the visitor. You can check the link http://safe.mn/8V again, or try with a new URL. As for spamming, we do extensive security checks, not just on the URL, but on the content as well. For transparency, you can add /i at the end of the URL to get all the data about the small link. You can also download the dump of all shorten links at ftp://safe.mn/ I’m the creator of Safe.mn. You have a good point. Safe.mn always redirect the user to the final URL if there are less than 5 redirections. Now, if there are more than 5 redirections, it will display a warning to the visitor. You can check the link http://safe.mn/8V again, or try with a new URL.

As for spamming, we do extensive security checks, not just on the URL, but on the content as well.

For transparency, you can add /i at the end of the URL to get all the data about the small link. You can also download the dump of all shorten links at ftp://safe.mn/

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