[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #34335: URL shorteners ( redirects) should to be supported by the embed handling for couple of hopes

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#34335: URL shorteners ( redirects) should to be supported by the embed handling
for couple of hopes
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 Reporter:  pbearne       |       Owner:
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Embeds        |     Version:  trunk
 Severity:  normal        |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  2nd-opinion   |     Focuses:
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Changes (by swissspidy):

 * keywords:   => 2nd-opinion


Comment:

 Thanks for creating the ticket after our recent chat.

 Currently, when pasting a URL like http://bit.ly/1Muwesb (a YouTube
 video),
 `http://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=http://bit.ly/1Muwesb&format=json` gets
 called in the end, which of course doesn't work. That's because WordPress
 follows the redirect to YouTube, but passes the original URL to the
 endpoint instead of the final redirect URL.

 To make this work, we'd need to store the final redirect URL, which is
 currently not possible with the HTTP API. This means there needs to be an
 equivalent to`WP_Http::handle_redirects` that doesn't just redirect, but
 returns the final URL.

 This would certainly make things more complex and I'm not sure if it's
 worth the effort and even the desired behaviour.

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