On 2018-02-20 (22:10 MST), Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote: > > you may hit confirmation-urls (both ham and spam), trigger actions, trigger > *one-time* urls which are invalid for the user after a dumb bot used them not > talking about that it would be illegal in many countries in case of private > ham-mails
As I suspected, it is possible to get the goo.gl target URL without loading the site, though using curl is probably not realistic in this specific case. $ curl -s "http://goo.gl/ylUAd" | grep -o "http[^\"]*" http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/donald-trump-threatens-sue-macy-422135 $ curl -s "http://bit.ly/savecastle" | grep -o "http[^\"]*" http://community.livejournal.com/castle_tv/28872.html Doesn't work with t.co, but that is not surprising since twitter uses that specifically to hide URLs, considering them all their property that must go through their servers. -- Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.