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Re:How not to do URL redirects (… the way Quora does) by ck2 on Thursday January 19, 2012 @01:59PM (#3486029)
We let you create surveys and display those on your website in a “targeted” manner

A better title for your article would have been:

why to never rely on referers

(which can be blocked or purposely malformed)

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Re:How not to do URL redirects (… the way Quora does) by avlesh-singh on Thursday January 19, 2012 @02:12PM (#3486086)
Absolutely! The post might have got some attention from Quora in that case :)
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