Aeva / ridinghood

An experimental web browser for the paranoid
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fetch urls out of url shorteners #6

Open Aeva opened 7 years ago

Aeva commented 7 years ago

A general component, to be able to take a url, determine if it belongs to a known url shortener, fetch it via a python request library to get the redirect url.

The main use for this would be if you were to click on a search result from google or a link on twitter, in which case the browser should request the new link completely outside the scope of any universe, and then the result can be opened in a new universe.

It would also be cool to see where a link goes before you actually open it.

For privacy reasons, the requests MUST be made through tor, and possibly some effort made to give it a random but plausible request header.