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Posted on January 17th, 2025 by Jon

Redirect.name is cool as heck. It strikes me as one of those “do one thing well” tools that just works. It has one mildly bothersome limitation though. It doesn’t support HTTPS. I was using this tool on a project, and I was getting complaints from people who’s browsers were defaulting to HTTPS (idk what the rules are for when this happens). I decided that I could either set up some sort of one-off domain forwarding thing for this project, or I could just host a fork of redirect.name with HTTPS support. It doesn’t have a documentation page (other than this blog post), but it works exactly like holic’s original version. Just use redirect.jons.tools in place of alias.redirect.name (or if you must use an A record, 206.217.136.59). Source code is here.


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