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On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Chris Angelico <> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Ian Kelly <> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Terry Reedy <> wrote:
>>>
>>>> The link to the survey is:http://bit.ly/SzVrJe
>>>
>>>
>>> Careful people do not open anonymous links from stangers. That file could
>>> literally be anything, including a malware injection page.
>>
>> In this case, the link leads to a Google Docs form, which is easy to
>> verify with a URL unshortening service.
>
> By "URL unshortening service" you mean a simple HTTP request to
> bit.ly:80, right? Though I admit there aren't many easy and
> convenient ways to do that without immediately following the 301
> redirect.

That's one way to do it. Although I find it a bit easier to just use
something like unshorten.com, which is the first Google hit for "url
unshortener". Assuming that you trust that site to not be hosting
malware itself.

Ian Kelly wrote:
> Although I find it a bit easier to just use
> something like unshorten.com, which is the first Google hit for "url
> unshortener". Assuming that you trust that site to not be hosting
> malware itself.

Ah yes, beware the Hungarian unshortening service that redirects
every request to a random porn page. They will plead incompetence,
of course.

--
Greg