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 ... ) > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.orbitalfox.eu/archives/gemini/attachments/20201026/bce0 211e/attachment.htm>
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