How do you programmatically expand a url link to its true location?
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How do you programmatically expand a url link to its true location?
Do you know about << spam >> and baidu.com? Baidu.com is a search engine that tries to discourage people from using their web site to make metasearch engines by hiding their links in a way that is a lot like how << spam >> works. << spam >> is a web site where, if you want to present someone with a link to something and that link is long, you can use tinyurl to produce a tiny url for presentation purposes.
Anyway, what I want to do is to find a way to programmatically take the link http://www.baidu.com/link?url=mW91GJqjJ4zBBpC8yDF8xDhiqDSn1JZjFWsHhEoSNd85PkV8Xil7qccoOX3rynaE (the first link in a search for Jessica Alba using baidu.com) and have it return the actual link, http://baike.baidu.com/view/270790.htm . That is just one example. What I want to do is not specific to Jessica but for using Baidu.com as part of my group of search engines in my meta search engine project.
Maybe there is a way of using the WebBrowser class but I did not see a member that was the URL.
Maybe there is a way of using WebRequest and WebResponse.
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