> On Feb 21, 2018, at 1:38 AM, @lbutlr <krem...@kreme.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2018-02-20 (22:10 MST), Reindl Harald <h.rei...@thelounge.net> wrote:
>> 
>> you may hit confirmation-urls (both ham and spam), trigger actions, trigger 
>> *one-time* urls which are invalid for the user after a dumb bot used them 
>> not talking about that it would be illegal in many countries in case of 
>> private ham-mails
> 
> As I suspected, it is possible to get the goo.gl target URL without loading 
> the site, though using curl is probably not realistic in this specific case.
> 
> $ curl -s "http://goo.gl/ylUAd"; | grep -o "http[^\"]*"
> http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/donald-trump-threatens-sue-macy-422135
>  
> <http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/donald-trump-threatens-sue-macy-422135>

You can also see all the analytics by appending “.info” to the URL, eg: 
http://goo.gl/ylUAd <http://goo.gl/ylUAd>.info

Charles

> 
> $ curl -s "http://bit.ly/savecastle"; | grep -o "http[^\"]*"
> http://community.livejournal.com/castle_tv/28872.html
> 
> Doesn't work with t.co, but that is not surprising since twitter uses that 
> specifically to hide URLs, considering them all their property that must go 
> through their servers.
> 
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> and villainy. We must be cautious.
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