This was recently posted on Hacker News, and someone wrote that it wasn't clear enough that you'd be accessing the same content. Hopefully this commit fixes that.
Links that end in trailing slash but don't have "/comments/" should add
"/comments" prefix but don't because the regex match succeeds. Fix the
regular expression to be more robust and add prefix for paths like
- /foo/
- /////foo
- /foo/////
- ////foo////
and not add prefix for paths like
- /comments/foo
- /////comments/foo
- /comments/////foo
- ////comments////foo
- ////comments////foo/////
The previous fix failed to consider links like
"redd.it/r/.../comments/...". Those don't really exist in the wild, and
they don't work (when redirects are turned off). Still, play it safe
and don't add "/comments" prefix unless the path has height 1.
Now, redirects should work for
- redd.it/foo
- redd.it/comments/foo
- redd.it/r/bar/comments/foo
even though the only kind of native link that works is
- redd.it/foo
Although I have never seen it in the wild, it is possible to navigate to
"redd.it/comments/...". This should redirect to
"teddit.net/comments/..." in the case of instance teddit.net. However,
the current code redirects it to "teddit.net/comments/comments/...".
Fix it by avoiding adding the prefix if it's already there.
If you try visiting a redd.it site like <https://redd.it/1fwqjw> (first
link that came up when searching "site:redd.it"), you may think that the
redirect works because it goes to your configured instance. However,
there's a leak: redd.it is a redirect to a www.reddit.com site, and
that's when the redirect to instance happens. If you observe the
network traffic, you'll see that a GET request goes to redd.it, and
redd.it returns HTTP code 302 and location https://www.reddit.com/...
Let's not do that. Redirect at redd.it so that requests don't hit
reddit servers. This does not seem to work for teddit instances, so
don't redirect for them.
Siddharth Singh
Simon Brazell
Elaborendum
git-bruh
Emilien Devos
Kotuklion
unbranched
Tim Hårek Andreassen
Gaurang Tandon
FantasyCookie17
bopol
Austin Huang
Jason Kim
fattalion