[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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Comment (by pbearne):

 I can see the problem.

 How is the embed code going to know that http://bit.ly/1Muwesb is a
 youtube video short of having a white list of shorteners and then calling
 the URL in order to get the end URL when we when calling for the embed at
 that point. This would be a lot of traffic and we would have to do some
 caching to manage the load.

 This would be nice maybe the answer would be to only follow URL's that are
 wrapped in an [embed] shortcode


 I can not see this request going anywhere soon

 Paul

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