Re: [CODE4LIB] Temporary redirection and the location bar

2010-03-01 Thread Erik Hetzner
At Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:00:15 -0500, Esme Cowles wrote: > > One solution to this problem is to use a reverse proxy instead of a > redirect. We do this for our ARKs, so temporary URL is not shown to > the end user at all. > > This is not a general solution, especially for people who are > redirectin

Re: [CODE4LIB] Temporary redirection and the location bar

2010-02-26 Thread Esme Cowles
One solution to this problem is to use a reverse proxy instead of a redirect. We do this for our ARKs, so temporary URL is not shown to the end user at all. This is not a general solution, especially for people who are redirecting externally and are concerned about the phishing scenario describ

[CODE4LIB] Temporary redirection and the location bar

2010-02-24 Thread Erik Hetzner
Hi - This is an issue which is of great importance to persistent identifiers on the web, and one which I thought should be brought to the attention of the c4l community. It affects PURLs, ARKs, and in general any system that redirects a persistent or permanent URI to another, temporary URI. I did