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Why URL Redirection????

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Why URL Redirection????
Why is every URL posted in the GT forum pages set to a redirection? (including the URLs posted in user profiles)

This seems to be wasteful...please let us know the rationale behind this decision.

Thanks in advance.


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Buh Bye!

Cheers,
Me

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AnthroRules: Sep 7, 2001, 8:42 PM
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Hi,

The redirection is that the forum supports url based authentication (ie session=some_string). If you are using that, then you don't want to leave your session in somebodies log files. That's the motivation in any case, I'm not sure if it's going to stay, may just turn into an option.

Cheers,

Alex

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Thanks Alex!

Although may be it should be used sparingly in the correct contxt, like URLs posted in Threads in the forums, but not profile or signature files.


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Buh Bye!

Cheers,
Me
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Any URL you click could be to a CGI script that grabs the HTTP_REFERER - which might have a user's session ID in it, if that user has set in their profile not to use cookies.


Jason Rhinelander
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