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Autodetect repo to launch based on HTTP referer #1860

Closed yuvipanda closed 5 months ago

yuvipanda commented 5 months ago

Given https://github.com/jupyterhub/binderhub/pull/891 has been in draft for a few years, I wanted to memorialize the feature it is trying to add in this issue so we can close the PR.

We could add an /autodetect endpoint that would detect the URL to launch based on the referer, and redirect the user to the correct full URL.

However, I think there's been some changes in which links get Referer passed and which don't in the last few years, so I'm not sure what the feasibility of this is.

manics commented 5 months ago

I don't think it's worth doing any more. Browser security and anti-tracking protections have increased a lot to the point where it wouldn't be reliable.

Auto detecting a pasted URL is nice though (covered in another issue).

yuvipanda commented 5 months ago

Great, let's close this as WONTFIX.