Twitter's mandatory link shortener, t.co, was down

Post by damncabbage » Tue, Oct 09, 2012, 6:33 AM UTC

guelo wrote: post #35

kcl wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If he was not misled by the false "on hover" representation of the link in his address bar, then its possible he means: 1. That Twitter uses a "short link" where Google uses some kind of (I trust) token-secured "open redirect" or 2. That Google uses a {Javascript, 301, ...} redirect where Twitter uses a {Javascript, 301, ...} redirect. Depending on what User-agent I sent, I got Twitter to variously return a Javascrip…

How does the fake link hover work? With Javascript turned off the first time I hover over a link I see the google redirect url but the second time I hover I see the fake url.