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smfreegard / DecodeShortURLs

SpamAssassin DecodeShortURLs plug-in repository
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goo.gl blocked bad links - why not react to that? #9

Open jhaar opened 6 years ago

jhaar commented 6 years ago

Hi there

I just tried out your plugin by creating my own goo.gl link and creating an email containing it. When I tested it, nothing happened - but debugging showed

DecodeShortURLs: URL is not redirect: .... = 200 OK

So then I went to the goo.gl link in my web browser. Somehow I'd managed to annoy Google because they had "blacklisted" the test redirector I had made. It had returned "HTTP 200" but the page said

this goo.gl shortlink has been disabled. It was found to be violating our Terms of Service

So even though it broke my test - I don't mind - I certainly was messing with Google a tad there. But I did think maybe your code could detect that violation text and add +5 to the score or something? If the redirector itself doesn't like the link - it must be bad (although my test wasn't - let's ignore that part ;-)

Just an idea

Jason

jnorell commented 6 years ago

Your browser will HTTP GET the URL, did you test an HTTP HEAD and see what you get? (no pun intended) It may well be 200 OK too,but good to check.

jhaar commented 6 years ago

All doesn't matter anymore - Google is shutting down that service

https://www.engadget.com/2018/03/30/google-shutting-down-goo-gl-url-shortening-service/

xpunkt commented 6 years ago

https://goo.gl/qCWQN3

is still active today