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