Feature suggestion: URL redirect cache

[Abromeit]

I'm pretty sure that i've seen cases in the past where clearing a FireFox History & Filecache didn't also remove cached 301 redirects. (While of course that doesn't have to be the case with FFs current behaviour any more.) Maybe that's an interesting target for you?

[samyk]

Ahh, very interesting! I wonder where the best place to store the identifier would be, maybe in a hashtag in the URL, eg fwd.from -> fwd.to/url#hash, and fwd.to/url#hash could be a single hosted page that sends back the hash/ID via a postMessage eventListener.

[Abromeit]

My first idea would be something like an iframe or AJAX-Request to a php file on the same host, which redirects to itself, just with changed query parameters ala test.php 301 -> test.php?foo=bar. But hashes might totally work, who knows ;)

(Sorry to say that i won't have time for Tests and Pull requests in this direction, but i wanted to write this idea down anyway.)

[samyk]

Cool, appreciate the idea