msplinks.com
Martin Atkins
I noticed some time ago that the graph was getting messed up by
MySpace's obfuscated msplinks.com URLs, but they don't seem to be
showing up anymore.
Does the SGAPI parser now treat these msplinks.com URLs as their real
URL? Is it safe for me to put my rel="me" link back on my MySpace page?
Brad Fitzpatrick
Martin Atkins
> I know nothing of these links. Could you elaborate?
>
MySpace obfuscates the URLs of all outgoing links in user-supplied
content on profile pages, by rewriting them to opaque nonsense in the
domain msplinks.com. It seems that they do this so that they can quickly
disable links to phishing sites or somesuch. However, this means that
when I do this:
<a href="http://martin.atkins.me.uk/" rel="me">
it actually becomes something like:
<a
href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vbWFydGluLmF0a2lucy5tZS51ay8="
rel="me">
I guess there's already some cleverness going on with collapsing of
permanent redirects into a single node, but rather than an HTTP redirect
msplinks.com serves an intermediate page saying "You're leaving
MySpace!" or somesuch, with a link to the target URL that looks like this:
<a id="link" href="http://martin.atkins.me.uk/"></a>
There seems to be more about this here:
http://mashable.com/2007/04/24/msplinks/
Dale Newfield
> when I do this:
>
> <a href="http://martin.atkins.me.uk/" rel="me">
>
> it actually becomes something like:
>
> <a
> href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vbWFydGluLmF0a2lucy5tZS51ay8="
> rel="me">
This long string is simply a base64 encoding of the link in question.
MDFodHRwOi8vbWFydGluLmF0a2lucy5tZS51ay8=
is base64 for
01http://martin.atkins.me.uk/
I was able to verify this by generating a valid msplinks.com page
including a new link I encoded (after adding "01" to the beginning).
> I guess there's already some cleverness going on with collapsing of
> permanent redirects into a single node
Since base64 encoding is stable, all links to the same address will
encode to the same msplinks link.
-Dale
Martin Atkins
> Martin Atkins wrote:
>> when I do this:
>>
>> <a href="http://martin.atkins.me.uk/" rel="me">
>>
>> it actually becomes something like:
>>
>> <a
>> href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vbWFydGluLmF0a2lucy5tZS51ay8="
>> rel="me">
>
> This long string is simply a base64 encoding of the link in question.
>
> MDFodHRwOi8vbWFydGluLmF0a2lucy5tZS51ay8=
> is base64 for
> 01http://martin.atkins.me.uk/
>
Aha! I should've tried that. Thanks.
Should be easy for the SGAPI parser to process these, then, right Brad?
Brad Fitzpatrick
- Brad
Dale Newfield
implemented, so that I can wind up with a bidirectional rel="me" to a
myspace page, and thus be able to leverage the "friends" specified
there?
Specifically, on my myspace page http://www.myspace.com/dnewfield I
added <a href="http://newfield.org/dale" rel="me">, but of course they
replace that with <a
href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vbmV3ZmllbGQub3JnL2RhbGU="
rel="me">, and while I could add a rel=me link from my real home page
to this msplinks page, that still won't result in a bidirectional
link...
-Dale
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Brad Fitzpatrick
Dale Newfield
profile page, but since there's no rel="me next" on the link to "See all
Connections" (and links from one page of connections to another), and no
way of getting the site to display a rel="me" link back to any external
pages, there appears to be no way to get SGAPI to leverage from those
carefully collected contacts. Just like myspace has an intermediate
page on outbound links, linkedin inserts an intermediate redirect:
http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnewfield%2Eorg%2Fdale&urlhash=fBF1
If they're trying to learn what outbound links are followed, they could
do <a href="external site"
onclick="window.location=redirect?url=external+site;return false">My
Website</a> so as to continue getting that info w/o breaking automated
link inference. Of course, since they don't include rel="me", they
clearly don't care about that.
Anyone here work at linkedin?
Is this project withering on the vine due to these walled gardens?
-Dale
On 5/11/10 1:55 PM, Brad Fitzpatrick wrote:
> SGAPI is somewhat understaffed at the moment, as I spend most of my
> limited time on Android performance lately. So unlikely... :-/
>
> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Dale Newfield <da...@newfield.org
> <mailto:da...@newfield.org>> wrote:
>
> So, any chance that this nearly two year old request might get
> implemented, so that I can wind up with a bidirectional rel="me" to a
> myspace page, and thus be able to leverage the "friends" specified
> there?
>
> Specifically, on my myspace page http://www.myspace.com/dnewfield I
> added <a href="http://newfield.org/dale" rel="me">, but of course they
> replace that with <a
> href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vbmV3ZmllbGQub3JnL2RhbGU="
> rel="me">, and while I could add a rel=me link from my real home page
> to this msplinks page, that still won't result in a bidirectional
> link...
>
> -Dale
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 2:48 AM, Brad Fitzpatrick
> <brad...@google.com <mailto:brad...@google.com>> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:36 PM, Martin Atkins
> <mailto:social-graph-a...@googlegroups.com>
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