On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Gregory Maxwell <[email protected]> wrote:
> hm. This could be resolved by mixing in the URL stuffing alternative,
> linking to /target#from_redirectname then letting client side JS code
> generate the redirect back-link.

Except if there's already a fragment in the link.  And it wouldn't
help browser link coloring.  And of course wouldn't work without JS
(not prohibitive, but a disadvantage).  You could add a query
parameter, but at that point it's an entirely different URL anyway, so
not much point.

> ...but workqueue workload is why I waved my arms about request merging and
> priority  queueing.  I'd expect that the actual additional work in fixing up
> redirect destination changes would be pretty negligible if the entries
> were handled at a lower priority and eliminated whenever their task
> was completed as a side effect of some other change.

They'd also never get done if the job queue is always overloaded with
higher-priority tasks.

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