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From: Deb's Freebies on 14 May 2010 00:47
I'm trying to find a way to track where links go. For example, I might
click on a link in my email from a newsletter, and it makes 3-7
redirects/hops before getting to the designated URL. I want to be able
to see the redirects. Anyone have a solution? There HAS to be some
freeware utility out there somewhere!
From: AlleyCat on 14 May 2010 18:17
In article <0493c32f-bfd4-4f08-8093-b4d1b0a392a9(a)k29g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>,
maryalanphier(a)gmail.com says...
> I'm trying to find a way to track where links go. For example, I might
> click on a link in my email from a newsletter, and it makes 3-7
> redirects/hops before getting to the designated URL. I want to be able
> to see the redirects. Anyone have a solution? There HAS to be some
> freeware utility out there somewhere!
>

I'm not sure if this works or not, but it's worth a try.

DOS comand: tracert

Maybe you can right-click on the link and "copy link location".

Open DOS box, type "tracert (space)" then click on the little c:\ button next to
"Command Prompt". Click on "edit" then "paste" and hit enter. This should show you all the "hops"
the links are taking.

Hope this helps. If not, you only wasted a couple of minutes learning something new ;)

Al
From: Gary R. Schmidt on 14 May 2010 07:51
Deb's Freebies wrote:
> I'm trying to find a way to track where links go. For example, I might
> click on a link in my email from a newsletter, and it makes 3-7
> redirects/hops before getting to the designated URL. I want to be able
> to see the redirects. Anyone have a solution? There HAS to be some
> freeware utility out there somewhere!
Yes there is, it comes with your Operating System.

Open up a cmd box (or terminal) and on Windows type in:
tracert www.example.com

On *NIX/MacOS X, type in:
traceroute www.example.com

Obviously, I hope, replace the "www.example.com" with the equivalent
part of the URL you want to examine.

From "http://neeker.breeker.waffle.com.us/here/there/everywhere.html"
use "neeker.breeker.waffle.com.us".

Sample output:
$ traceroute groups.google.com
traceroute: Warning: groups.google.com has multiple addresses; using
66.102.7.101
traceroute: Warning: Multiple interfaces found; using 192.168.0.51 @ e1000g0
traceroute to groups.google.com (66.102.7.101), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
.... Some private-ish stuff elided ...
6 202.7.171.46 (202.7.171.46) 41.728 ms 41.511 ms 42.033 ms
7 66.249.95.234 (66.249.95.234) 42.960 ms 41.940 ms 43.013 ms
8 209.85.249.52 (209.85.249.52) 142.244 ms 143.616 ms 142.414 ms
9 209.85.255.56 (209.85.255.56) 150.295 ms 160.685 ms 149.056 ms
10 209.85.242.251 (209.85.242.251) 239.258 ms 239.132 ms 238.210 ms
11 72.14.232.84 (72.14.232.84) 257.758 ms 257.371 ms 265.288 ms
12 209.85.249.188 (209.85.249.188) 257.003 ms 254.814 ms 257.437 ms
13 64.233.174.70 (64.233.174.70) 256.486 ms 260.495 ms 256.956 ms
14 lax04s01-in-f101.1e100.net (66.102.7.101) 256.023 ms 256.818 ms
256.374 ms

Cheers,
Gary B-)
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