Brion Vibber schrieb:
I've taken it out for the moment as a) like adding random domain names, it's a really bad idea to encourage a dependency on inherently unstable URLs, and b) there was an infinite looping problem.
a) I don't see why these URLs should be, by necessity, inherently unstable. Unlike domain names, they don't require registration, they're purely software. They've been in use for a few months now without any issues besides the Apache problem you discovered. Where is the high maintenance requirement? In my opinion, it's bad to keep them disabled after they've been in use for several months already. This discussion, if it needs to take place, should have taken place when the short URLs were first introduced.
b) is fixed in the version on the server, to my knowledge. Am I missing something?
I understand that it's annoying to track down a weird bug like this in an obscure script, but I don't think that is sufficient reason to turn off the short URLs completely.
Peace,
Erik