Friday, July 16
Open HTTP redirectors (Michael J. Radwin's blog)
From Open HTTP redirectors (Michael J. Radwin's blog):
Open HTTP redirectorsInteresting. I know that Teoti was using this, but to hide the referring site more than anything else.
There has been much discussion about open e-mail relays, but very little about open HTTP redirectors. An open redirector is hosted by foo.com, but will unintentionally send you to bar.com. This can have interesting effects on PageRank or can trick users into clicking on something that isn't what it seems.
After many months of abuse by spammers, the rd.yahoo.com redirect server is now closed.
Yahoo! has used a redirect server for a long time for tracking clicks from one Yahoo! website to another.
They bring up Google's redirect server http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.dontbeadumbass.com/,
MSN's redirect server http://g.msn.com/http://www.dontbeadumbass.com/. Which may or may not work, since I'm unsure how it works.
And then there are the Indian http://in.rd.yahoo.com/*http://www.dontbeadumbass.com/,
Australian http://au.rd.yahoo.com/*http://www.dontbeadumbass.com/,
Taiwanese http://tw.rd.yahoo.com/*http://www.dontbeadumbass.com/,
and Japanese http://jp.rd.yahoo.com/*http://www.dontbeadumbass.com/
versions that are still live.
Interesting what you can learn from the comments. Relevant Link Permanent link posted by bytehead @ 7/16/2004 07:37:00 PM
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