Topic: Redirector

[digger]

Link to Mod

SMF Redirector mod

Author: digger
License: The MIT License (MIT)
Hooks only: Yes
Compatible with: SMF 2.0, SMF 2.1
Languages: English, Russian, French
GitHub: https://github.com/realdigger/SMF-Redirector

Redirect for external links. Hide links from guests.

Features:
* External links redirection
* For guests only redirection
* Members websites redirection
* External links encoding
* Hide links for guests
* Delayed or instantly redirection
* Domains white list
* Option for rel="nofollow noopener".

History:
1.2.5 Fix redirect page
1.2.6 French translation by alexetgus

[Shambles]

Hi digger. Thanks for this mod.

What does it actually do?

[digger]

Hi digger. Thanks for this mod.

What does it actually do?

Hi.
Mod redirects external links over internal forum page.
For examle link https://www.simplemachines.org will be redirected to index.php?action=go;url=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ltcGxlbWFjaGluZXMub3Jn

[Shambles]

Hi thanks.

I might be being thick here, but what does it redirect to? What's at url=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ltcGxlbWFjaGluZXMub3Jn ?

[digger]

Hi thanks.

I might be being thick here, but what does it redirect to? What's at url=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuc2ltcGxlbWFjaGluZXMub3Jn ?

It's encoded string for https://www.simplemachines.org

[Shambles]

I'm clearly missing something here.

What happens when action=go;url=encoded_string

Apologies for not understanding something that's probably simple, but I just can't understand this. Do we have to write some code to understand the encoded_string?

[digger]

It's a SEO magic
With this mod external links looks like a forum local links pointed to action=go.
When you go to action=go;url=encoded_string mod decodes encoded url and redirect browser to original url.

[Shambles]

Maybe say all that in the description, yeah?

[shawnb61]

Is it dynamic, or are the encoded links stored? 

Wondering if this might impact site moves or https conversions...

[digger]

Is it dynamic, or are the encoded links stored? 

Wondering if this might impact site moves or https conversions...

It is dynamic. Mod change |URL| and |IURL| tags parser.

[Arantor]

Not sure how it actually helps with SEO, if anything I'd wonder if it would hurt because it's been well known for some years that not linking out of a site actually hurts: you want to have good reputation but you don't want to consider anything else worthy of reputation yourself, you don't trust anything, therefore Google considers that you yourself aren't as worthy of trust either.

[Gryzor]

Got to agree with Arantor, I don't see how this will help with SEO in the long term. I guess the concept it that you create in-site cross-linking, but since the targets are not indexed pages I doubt it will take long for a search engine to sniff out what happens...

[asisehacepro]

Hello,
First to all, congratulations because of your mod.
But I get the following error when I load the bridge page with x delay before accessing the final website.

Call to undefined function mimespecialchars()

Looking for that function with notepad, I get the following in the .\Sources\Subs-Post.php file

Code: [Select]

Line 73: string mimespecialchars(string text, bool with_charset = true,
Line 674: list (, $from_name) = mimespecialchars(addcslashes($from !== null ? $from : $context['forum_name'], '<>()\'\\"'), true, $hotmail_fix, $line_break);
Line 675: list (, $subject) = mimespecialchars($subject, true, $hotmail_fix, $line_break);
Line 708: list(, $plain_message) = mimespecialchars($no_html_message, false, true, $line_break);
Line 712: list($charset, $plain_charset_message, $encoding) = mimespecialchars($no_html_message, false, false, $line_break);
Line 718: list($charset, $html_message, $encoding) = mimespecialchars($orig_message, false, $hotmail_fix, $line_break);
Line 727: list(, $plain_message) = mimespecialchars($orig_message, false, true, $line_break);
Line 731: list ($charset, $encoded_message, $encoding) = mimespecialchars($orig_message, false, false, $line_break);
Line 1215: function mimespecialchars($string, $with_charset = true, $hotmail_fix = false, $line_break = "\r\n", $custom_charset = null)
If you need any more files, just ask me. I'm using SMF 2.0.17 and everything else works fine for me.

Thank you very much in advance.
Greetings.

[Sir Osis of Liver]

As per the earlier posts, this mod is basically useless.  mimespecialchars() is a core function, the mod is probably calling it before it's defined.

[digger]

But I get the following error when I load the bridge page with x delay before accessing the final website.
Call to undefined function mimespecialchars()

Fixed in v1.2.5

[asisehacepro]

But I get the following error when I load the bridge page with x delay before accessing the final website.
Call to undefined function mimespecialchars()

Fixed in v1.2.5

Thank you very much for you answer and update!
I'm using now perfectly!

Thanks again.