Redirection limits

[John Cowan]

A good point.  But a well-written Gemini shortener would retrieve the URL
it is being asked to shorten and make sure that it is not already a
redirection; if so, it can either reject or snap the link (although Gemini
redirects are officially temporary, there may be exceptions in practice).

On Mon, Oct 26, 2020 at 10:16 PM Sean Conner <sean at conman.org> wrote:

> It was thus said that the Great John Cowan once stated:
> > It seems to me that the limit on redirection should be purely a client
> > issue rather than a hardwired part of the spec.  Some clients won't want
> to
> > redirect at all, others will want to retry 1 or 5 or 100 times, depending
> > on what they are being used for.
>
>   The original limit was 5.  But 9,015 (at the precise moment) is a bit
> excessive.  The limit of 5 was to help prevent the creation URL shortners
> that are so prevelant on the web.
>
>   Ah, I see that the limit is now mentioned in the Best Practices document,
> not the specification.  Still, a clent *should* give up redirections past
> some amount (11,329 as of now).
>
>   -spc (11430 ... )
>
>
>
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