[geeks] New Intel Atom-based barebones system

[Joshua Boyd]

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:41:55AM -0400, Dan Sikorski wrote:
> nate at portents.com wrote:
> >I actually prefer people just edit down the URL.  Places like Newegg and
> >Amazon can have their URLs stripped way down to just a product ID string. 
> >For Newegg, you just need "Item=", so when someone posts a Newegg URL they
> >can shorten it to just this:

> I am also not a fan of the short url redirector sites.  It seems like it 
> would be too easy to abuse them to send me places i don't want to go, be 
> it malware for a computer, or malware for eyes (goatse, etc.).

ReferURL.net uses a Refresh header rather than the more common 302 resource
moved trick.  This was mainly because I didn't know about the 302 trick
when I first wrote it.

The upside of the refresh is that it flashes the URL where you are going
before you go there.  But it is pretty fast, so that may not help.
Besides, I think most people would rather have an even faster redirect
speed than see the refresh at all.

I could change it so that the end user can select an option to identify
them by cookie as someone who wants more time to see the URL for
redirecting, but that only helps you if the people sending you the URL
are using ReferURL, and I'm sure that most people are going to use the
trendy services of bit.ly or moourl.com, or the venerable but ugly
tinyurl.com. 

It seems to me that what you really need is a firefox plugin that askes
you about refreshs and 302s before acting upon them.