Posted by Stewart Gordon on 09/27/05 19:08

Els wrote:
> Stewart Gordon wrote:
>> Michael Winter wrote:
>>
>>> Don't forget that some people (a couple of regulars, at least) don't
>>> like redirected URLs.
>> Any idea why?
>
> Because you can't see where they go. They could go directly to a virus
> or something scary.

Just about any URL could go to a virus or something scary, redirected or
not. Usually, the result of following a redirecting URL is identical to
that of going to the URL it redirects to directly.

Stewart.

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