On Monday, April 12, 2004, 6:00:40 PM, Justin Mason wrote:
> Jeff Chan writes:
>> On Monday, April 12, 2004, 4:58:11 PM, Burnie Burnie wrote:

>> > Currently I get quite a few URIs which contains redirectors.
>> > I.e. http://drs.yahoo.com/incomplete/*http://spammer/address
>> >      http://g.msn.com/0US!s5.31472_315529/HP.1001?http://spammer/address
>> 
>> > AFAIK URIDNSBL.pm (and SpamCopURI) will not trigger on the
>> > spammers URI. - Even though the RBLs (mostly) will contain the
>> > URI/IP of http://spammer/address.
>> 
>> > Of course the above would be easy to parse to get the actual URIs, 
>> > but what about other redirectors where the actual URI must be
>> > looked up at the redirector itself? (Those who shortens the URI)
>> 
>> > Should we run lookups to known redirectors to get the actual URI?
>> > And how many times should we lookup, if the redirect is to
>> > (another) redirector?
>> 
>> Definitely a good question.  Ideally mail handlers like SA that
>> want to parse message body URIs should somehow resolve the
>> redirections.  I just wrote a little about the topic on sa-users
>> and my site:
>> 
>>   http://www.surbl.org/

> I think I agree.  We already translate %-escapes and return both the
> encoded and unencoded URIs -- we should probably also strip off known
> redirectors, as their use will become more popular.

> Could you open a bug?

> - --j.

Done:

  http://bugzilla.spamassassin.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3261

This is my first bugzilla.   Feedback appreciated.    :-)

Jeff C.
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