Many of you know I've been working on a website that includes a URL redirection service.
Through personal experience, and a trend I've been noticing of many sites banning redirect sites because of blind redirects to malicious/ phishing sites, I'm starting to lean towards the idea of making the redirect service include a mandatory preview page. This page would simply state the URL the user would be going to, and they have to click "proceed" to move on. I've personally been burned by clicking a tinyurl link only to be sent to a graphic image or something like that. I had already configured my site to allow preview options. Otherwise, I almost think it would do more harm than good to allow the site to potentially be abused by scammers, spammers, phishers, and black hats, much in the way Tinyurl.com and bit.ly are. I'm looking at the Google Safe Search API, along with the Phishtank API, and considering including in the preview page calls to the API's to return a 'status' on the url. This way the preview page would not only show the url the user would be sent to, but also include somekind of 3rd party validation about the site. Thoughts? I know it's kind of an inconvenience, but so many sites are outright blocking redirect sites that I think this might be the only way around it. aka try and be known as a "safe" redirect service. I know this isn't strictly OpenBD but the site is hosted on OpenBD. -- Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://www.openbluedragon.org/ http://twitter.com/OpenBlueDragon official manual: http://www.openbluedragon.org/manual/ Ready2Run CFML http://www.openbluedragon.org/openbdjam/ mailing list - http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en
