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Link and headers

Follows the redirects one by one so you see where a link really goes, and shows the final site’s headers and security settings.

What are redirects and headers?

When you open a link, the server may answer not with a page but with “go to this other address”. That is a redirect, and short links, ad links and sometimes deceptive ones pass you through several in a row. Seeing the whole path before you open a link shows where it really ends.

Every server answer carries a few lines of notes called headers. Some protect the visitor: one makes the browser always connect over HTTPS, one stops the site being shown inside another site, one says where the page may load scripts from. A missing one is not a fault on its own, but sensitive sites should have them all.