Deprecated! Anyone who uses the Git.io address reduction service on Github should pay attention

GitHub is a hosting platform for open source and private software projects, because it only supports Git as the only repository format for hosting, hence the name GitHub. For programmers, GitHub can be said to be where the spirit of open source comes from. On GitHub, any professional programmer and programming enthusiast can share source code, explore projects they are interested in, and communicate and learn.

Recently, GitHub released an announcement to "deprecate Git.io". The announcement stated that GitHub will close the shortened address service from April 29, 2022, and all links on Git.io will stop redirecting at that time. Therefore, GitHub is calling on developers to immediately update and replace existing links that use the git.io URL service.

Git.io

In 2011, GitHub created a URL shortening service that can randomly or customize a short link and redirect to GitHub domains such as github.com and github.io. Once the service was launched, it was so popular that many programmers replaced the links to scripts they developed on GitHub with custom short URLs.

However, although the short URL service has been well received, GitHub officials have never released it as an official product, which means that the short URL has always been an experimental product. And as early as January of this year, GitHub announced that git.io had entered read-only mode, making the deprecation countdown.

There is of course a reason for this, as the official GitHub announcement also mentioned: "Due to the security of links redirected using the current git.io infrastructure, we have decided to speed up (deprecate) this timeline, and have decided to All existing link redirects will be removed from git.io on April 29." Although short URLs bring great convenience to users in sharing, viewing, and some limited character scenarios, short URLs completely cover the original The characteristics of URLs have great security risks. Malware links can easily replace the correct address, which in turn causes the loss of user rights such as privacy and assets. Not only GitHub, this security problem of short URLs has been criticized for a long time. For example, Google stopped its URL shortening service function Google URL Shortener on March 30, 2019.

Back to the original notice, programmers, if you are using GitHub's git.io URL shortening service, please replace these links as soon as possible~

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