{"id":2210,"date":"2025-01-27T12:25:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T12:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/?p=2210"},"modified":"2025-02-10T20:30:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T20:30:39","slug":"301-redirect-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/301-redirect-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Send secure links"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been playing recently with a <a href=\"https:\/\/301er.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&#8220;supercharged 301&#8221; app<\/a>, which allows you to create a 301 redirect (like bit.ly and similar), but crucially has a few key features:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>You define where the link goes &#8211; e.g. to a therapist or a support service.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can define the number of times the link can be clicked before it redirects somewhere else. Once is usually the use case &#8211; the link only works for the first person to click it. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can define how long the link lasts for before expiry.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>If either the maximum clicks or the time limit has been reached, the link goes to a different URL of your choosing, eg. a local restaurant.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>You can receive an email the moment it&#8217;s clicked, with a little bit of information about the click (timestamp, user agent, etc).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea is that you can send a link to someone, and even if someone is snooping on their messages, as long as they do it after your recipient has used the link, all they&#8217;ll get to is to something innocuous like a cafe&#8217;s website, or an interesting article. The actual link you sent them may have been to a reproductive health services site, or similar. And if someone clicks it before the recipient does, you&#8217;ll get an email letting you know, with a timestamp and device information. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Have a play at <a href=\"https:\/\/301er.io\/\">301er.io<\/a> and let me know what you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing recently with a &#8220;supercharged 301&#8221; app, which allows you to create a 301 redirect (like bit.ly and similar), but crucially has a few key features: The idea is that you can send a link to someone, and even if someone is snooping on their messages, as long as they do it after &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/301-redirect-app\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Send secure links&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215,"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2210\/revisions\/2215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomgeraghty.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}