[OT] fon.nu feature set is getting famous

[Richmond Mathewson]

On 05/17/2011 08:56 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 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?

According to Firefox 4, Ubuntu 11.04 they are all over the place, as I 
keep getting "prevented redirection".
>
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