I was going to offer my opine on security risks but some prominent R folks
tend to woefully inaccurately knee-jerk/react badly to my 25+ year expert
opinion on such things and create childish website verbiage to show their
lack of maturity (who knew random developers can become security experts
ov
On 16/09/2020 4:51 p.m., Simon Urbanek wrote:
I can't comment for CRAN, but generally, shorteners are considered security
risk so regardless of the 301 handling I think flagging those is a good idea.
Also I think it is particularly bad to use them in manuals because it hides the
target so the
I can't comment for CRAN, but generally, shorteners are considered security
risk so regardless of the 301 handling I think flagging those is a good idea.
Also I think it is particularly bad to use them in manuals because it hides the
target so the user has no idea what hey will get.
Cheers,
Sim
Dear all,
the new CRAN URL checks flag HTTP 301 redirects. While I understand
the intent, I think this is unfortunate, because several URL shortener
services use 301 redirects, and often a shorter URL is actually better
in a manual page than a longer one that can be several lines long in
the conso
On 8/27/20 8:38 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 7:54 PM Tomas Kalibera wrote:
On 8/25/20 6:14 PM, Tomas Kalibera wrote:
On 8/22/20 9:33 PM, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
On Sat, Aug 22, 2020 at 9:10 PM Tomas Kalibera
wrote:
On 8/22/20 8:26 PM, Tomas Kalibera wrote:
On 8/22/20 7:58 PM,
