How not to do URL redirects (… the way Quora does)

Re:How not to do URL redirects (… the way Quora does) by zerostar07 on Thursday January 19, 2012 @02:35PM (#3486207)

Indeed, referers are useful information in some cases. For bookmarking apps like http://noteplz.com one useful thing is that along with the bookmark, they also store the referer, so you can later go back to the google search result where you found that bookmark.

On the other hand, with https and url shorteners,referers are a dying breed. The situation with URL shorteners is absurdly funny now, because twitter double-shortens the shortened urls, since most popular sites have their own shortener.

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Re:How not to do URL redirects (… the way Quora does) by mkjones on Thursday January 19, 2012 @05:37PM (#3487196)

I don't think url shorteners really hurt referrers at all. They typically use 301 or 302 redirects, which preserve the original referrer.

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Re:How not to do URL redirects (… the way Quora does) by zerostar07 on Thursday January 19, 2012 @06:40PM (#3487491)

... however since twitter is under https, all of them end up being "t.co". And even if it wasn't https, a double redirect would lose the referrer

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