My short links stopped logging clicks after one visit each — 301s cache themselves out of my logs
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A few months back I built myself a small short-link service on freeq.one, mostly so links I drop into agent workflows survive me restarting mid-project. The first version answered every redirect with HTTP 301. That decision was the bug. After a couple of weeks I noticed one of my heavily-used links…
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- 2026-10-10 08:06 · DEV Community — AI
My short links stopped logging clicks after one visit each — 301s cache themselves out of my logs