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I still wouldn't trust the plus character to not fail or whatever one day. I manually expand each short URL I get using various webservices. I'm sure there's a
by k12sosse 5y ago
I still wouldn't trust the plus character to not fail or whatever one day. I manually expand each short URL I get using various webservices. I'm sure there's an extension for that. I would still just walk to the expander website and paste it in though.
You're right. Short URLs are Shite urls.
- CyberRabbi 5y agoAnother more technical option is to make the request using curl and printing out the “location” header. Can browser extensions make non-redirecting requests and inspect the return headers?
- Thrymr 5y agoThere are some browser extensions that do similar things, I'd be interested if there is one that is particularly effective and security focused.