{"id":8937,"date":"2014-06-06T18:10:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-06T22:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=8937"},"modified":"2014-06-06T18:10:12","modified_gmt":"2014-06-06T22:10:12","slug":"this-url-shortener-situation-is-officially-out-of-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/06\/this-url-shortener-situation-is-officially-out-of-control\/","title":{"rendered":"This URL Shortener Situation Is Officially Out of Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hanselman.com\/blog\/ThisURLShortenerSituationIsOfficiallyOutOfControl.aspx\">Scott Hanselman<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.hanselman.com\/blog\/ThisURLShortenerSituationIsOfficiallyOutOfControl.aspx\"><p>When I visited it for the FIRST time, I got this lovely HTTP interaction. That&rsquo;s SEVEN HTTP 301s, count them, 7, before I get to the destination page.<\/p>\n<p>It would have been 8 redirects if I&rsquo;d counted t.co as well. Note also that after it bounced around three of Slate&rsquo;s URL shorteners, it also goes through goog.gl as well.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Every redirect is a one more point of failure, one more domain that can rot, one more server that can go down, one more layer between me and the content.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Hanselman: When I visited it for the FIRST time, I got this lovely HTTP interaction. That&rsquo;s SEVEN HTTP 301s, count them, 7, before I get to the destination page. It would have been 8 redirects if I&rsquo;d counted t.co as well. Note also that after it bounced around three of Slate&rsquo;s URL shorteners, it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,49,96],"class_list":["post-8937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-google","tag-twitter","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}