On 8/27/20 8:38 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 7:54 PM Tomas Kalibera wrote:
On 8/25/20 6:14 PM, Tomas Kalibera wrote:
On 8/22/20 9:33 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 9:10 PM Tomas Kalibera
wrote:
On 8/22/20 8:26 PM, Tomas Kalibera wrote:
On 8/22/20 7:58 PM,
Dear all,
the new CRAN URL checks flag HTTP 301 redirects. While I understand
the intent, I think this is unfortunate, because several URL shortener
services use 301 redirects, and often a shorter URL is actually better
in a manual page than a longer one that can be several lines long in
the conso
I can't comment for CRAN, but generally, shorteners are considered security
risk so regardless of the 301 handling I think flagging those is a good idea.
Also I think it is particularly bad to use them in manuals because it hides the
target so the user has no idea what hey will get.
Cheers,
Sim
On 16/09/2020 4:51 p.m., Simon Urbanek wrote:
I can't comment for CRAN, but generally, shorteners are considered security
risk so regardless of the 301 handling I think flagging those is a good idea.
Also I think it is particularly bad to use them in manuals because it hides the
target so the
I was going to offer my opine on security risks but some prominent R folks
tend to woefully inaccurately knee-jerk/react badly to my 25+ year expert
opinion on such things and create childish website verbiage to show their
lack of maturity (who knew random developers can become security experts
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