Re:How not to do URL redirects (… the way Quora does)
by dmethvin on Thursday January 19, 2012 @12:13PM
(#3485400)
It doesn't work for keyboard access in the sense that you don't insert the redirect, but at least the link still takes them to the right place.
Seems like the original link following the `url=` should be processed by encodeURIComponent or else any original urls with chars like ""&" will break.
On the /redirect url just log any data you need and send a 301 or 302 redirect. The destination site will see your original page as a referrer, not your redirect url.