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I have built a new project which I call outbound. I designed it to redirect users to any outbound links on my blog or elsewhere on my site. This project requires modifying an outbound link to visit a configured location, e.g., /outbound/https://start.duckduckgo.com/.

As a minimal effort to reduce pointless traffic, a link will only redirect if the referer is in a whitelist configured by the admin.

The idea is to log to regular web server logs (apache, nginx, etc.) redirects. The admin can just view all http response 307 visits for path /outbound/.

To build a link, the page author needs to include the protocol after the prefix, so /outbound/https://start.duckduckgo.com/ is good, but /outbound/start.duckduckgo.com/ makes the link invalid.

I plan on using links like this in the future, so I can get some insights into what outbound links my audience uses, that is, if I have an audience.

For testing purposes, here are some outbound links in different formats, for testing my CMS (Nikola):

• start.duckduckgo.com regular [text](/outbound/http://example.com) format works
• https://web.emhmki.org/ inline html <a href="/outbound/https://web.emhmki.org/">https://web.emhmki.org/</a> works.