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Author: rdsmith4

Description:
It's possible to redirect to a google cache:

#REDIRECT [[cache:www.google.com]]

and, of course, to goatse and whatnot, thus this feature (intentional or
otherwise) is a magnet for vandalism.


Version: 1.4.x
Severity: major
URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rdsmith4/testing_cache_redirects

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bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 8:15 PM
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rowan.collins wrote:

The real bug here is that redirects to "external" interwikis should not be
possible - such interwikis are just shorthand for URLs, and since you can't
redirect to URLs, why should interwikis be any difference. In contrast,
"internal" interwiki links - e.g. between the Wikimedia prjoects, such as from
Wikipedia to Wiktionary - should be made so that they "know" where they've been
redirected from (if it's an internal interwiki, we know the target's a MediaWiki
install). See also bug 850 and bug 999.

As a workaround, perhaps the "Cache:" prefix should be taken out of the
interwiki map, and in general the list of prefixes be reviewed taking the
ability to redirect into consideration.

Since a while back, only internal interwikis may be redirected to.