[SURBL-Discuss] SURBL reports on short links that don't exist or aren't blacklisted

Raymond Dijkxhoorn raymond at prolocation.net
Thu Aug 4 10:13:32 CEST 2011


Hi Sam,

> I meant if the redirector returned a 404, I.E. the short link doesn't 
> exist. And we do provide an API but I assume I would have to set up 
> something special for this. Are there any guidelines to doing this?

> A good thing would be to provide a API 'like the big redirectors alleady
> do' where we can check things on.
>
> BIT.LY for example has a API we use for checking if a link is available or
> not.

Not that i know of. But it would be a good startingpoint i guess to just 
copy functionality of the BIT.LY API. Thats used in multiple places i know 
so easier to adopt elsewhere.

Bye,
Raymond.



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