[OT] fon.nu feature set is getting famous

[Richard Gaskin]

Bob Sneidar wrote:

 > On May 17, 2011, at 2:34 AM, Matthias Rebbe wrote:
 >
 >>> This code is stored as a text file inside a data folder in
 >>> the server, the first line of that folder is
 >>> the long URL. When someone tries to access http://fon.nu/something
 >>> the irev file picks the something part and checks to see if a file
 >>> exists, if it exists, then it issues a "301 Location changed HTTP
 >>> header" pointing to the long URL.
 >
 > So's you know, this will wreak havoc with a lot of browsers and
 > firewall software.

I would imagine redirects are far more common than systems that don't 
support them, no?

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