{"id":56,"date":"2026-08-15T04:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.expandurl.net\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2026-08-15T04:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T04:16:08","slug":"whats-new-on-expandurl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.expandurl.net\/blog\/whats-new-on-expandurl\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s New on ExpandURL"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 id=\"whats-new-on-expandurl-smarter-safety-checks-for-every-link-you-expand\">What&#39;s New on ExpandURL: Smarter Safety Checks for Every Link You Expand<\/h1>\n<p>At ExpandURL, our goal has always been simple \u2014 help you know exactly where a shortened link takes you before you click it. Today, we&#39;re pleased to share a round-up of the features we&#39;ve built into the platform to make that goal more meaningful than ever.<\/p>\n<p>From detecting phishing forms to inspecting every hop in a redirect chain, here&#39;s a detailed look at what ExpandURL now checks for every single URL you submit.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"why-link-safety-matters-more-than-ever\">Why Link Safety Matters More Than Ever<\/h2>\n<p>Shortened URLs are everywhere \u2014 in emails, text messages, social media posts, and QR codes. Their convenience is also their risk: by design, they hide the destination. Cybercriminals exploit this to disguise phishing pages, malware downloads, and scam sites behind innocent-looking links.<\/p>\n<p>ExpandURL was built to close that gap. Paste a shortened link, and we&#39;ll do the detective work \u2014 revealing the destination, inspecting the page, and flagging anything that warrants a closer look.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"feature-overview\">Feature Overview<\/h2>\n<h3 id=\"1-redirect-chain-inspection\">1. Redirect Chain Inspection<\/h3>\n<p>When you click a shortened URL, you rarely go directly to the final destination. Most links pass through one or more intermediate hops \u2014 sometimes two or three, sometimes many more. Each hop is a redirect, and each redirect has an HTTP status code that tells you something about what&#39;s happening.<\/p>\n<p>ExpandURL traces the entire redirect chain from start to finish, displaying every URL along the way alongside its HTTP status code and a plain-English description of what that code means. Common codes you might see include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>301 Moved Permanently<\/strong> \u2014 the resource has moved to a new address for good<\/li>\n<li><strong>302 Found<\/strong> \u2014 a temporary redirect, often used by URL shorteners<\/li>\n<li><strong>307 Temporary Redirect<\/strong> \u2014 similar to 302, but stricter about the request method<\/li>\n<li><strong>meta refresh<\/strong> \u2014 a page-level redirect rather than a server-level one<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Why does this matter? A chain that passes through several unrelated domains before landing somewhere can be a red flag. Legitimate services tend to have short, clean redirect paths. Seeing a link bounce through four or five different domains before arriving at a login page is the kind of detail that&#39;s easy to miss if you just click \u2014 and exactly the kind of detail ExpandURL is designed to surface.<\/p>\n<p>Each hop in the chain is displayed with its full URL, <a href=\"\/http-status-codes\/\">status code<\/a>, and a colour-coded badge so you can assess the chain at a glance.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 id=\"2-connection-security-https-check\">2. Connection Security (HTTPS Check)<\/h3>\n<p>Once we&#39;ve identified the final destination of your link, we check whether that destination uses HTTPS \u2014 the encrypted version of the web&#39;s standard communication protocol.<\/p>\n<p>When a site uses HTTPS, data travelling between your browser and the server is encrypted. This means your login credentials, personal details, and browsing activity on that site cannot easily be intercepted by a third party on the same network.<\/p>\n<p>When a site uses plain HTTP, that protection is absent. Any data you submit \u2014 a form, a password, an email address \u2014 travels in plain text and could theoretically be intercepted.<\/p>\n<p>ExpandURL displays one of two results for every destination URL:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>HTTPS \u2014 Secure Connection<\/strong> \u2014 the site uses encryption; your data is protected in transit<\/li>\n<li><strong>HTTP Only \u2014 Not Secure<\/strong> \u2014 the connection is unencrypted; exercise caution before entering any information<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#39;s worth noting that HTTPS alone doesn&#39;t make a site trustworthy \u2014 phishing sites can and do use HTTPS. But a site asking for your personal details over plain HTTP is an immediate warning sign.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 id=\"3-form-detection--our-newest-safety-feature\">3. Form Detection \u2014 Our Newest Safety Feature<\/h3>\n<p>This is the feature we&#39;re most excited to introduce, and it came from a straightforward observation: if someone is suspicious enough about a link to check it on ExpandURL, they should know whether the destination page is going to ask them for information.<\/p>\n<p>Because we already fetch the page source to extract meta information, we can inspect that source for HTML forms \u2014 the elements that collect and submit data from users. We&#39;ve built a detection system that doesn&#39;t just flag the presence of a form, but analyses what kind of form it is and how it behaves.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"what-we-look-for\">What We Look For<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Password fields<\/strong> \u2014 any form containing <code>&lt;input type=&quot;password&quot;&gt;<\/code> is flagged specifically. These are login or account forms, and entering your credentials on an untrusted page is one of the most common ways people get compromised.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text and email fields<\/strong> \u2014 forms that collect names, email addresses, or other text input are noted. These are common on legitimate sites, but on a page you didn&#39;t intentionally navigate to, they warrant awareness.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cross-domain form actions<\/strong> \u2014 this is the most technically significant check. Every HTML form has an <code>action<\/code> attribute that specifies where the submitted data is sent. On a legitimate site, this is almost always the same domain as the page itself. On a phishing page, the action often points to a completely different domain \u2014 one controlled by the attacker \u2014 to capture what you type.<\/p>\n<p>We compare the form&#39;s action URL against the domain of the page being inspected. If they don&#39;t match, we flag it prominently.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"how-we-communicate-the-risk\">How We Communicate the Risk<\/h4>\n<p>Rather than a binary yes\/no, we use a four-tier system so the message is proportionate to what was found:<\/p>\n<table class=\"table\">\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"color:black\">Badge<\/th>\n<th style=\"color:black\">Condition<\/th>\n<th style=\"color:black\">What It Means<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\ud83d\udfe2 None<\/td>\n<td>No forms found<\/td>\n<td>The page doesn&#39;t appear to collect any user data<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\ud83d\udd35 Info<\/td>\n<td>Forms present, no sensitive inputs<\/td>\n<td>Likely a search box or similar \u2014 low concern<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\ud83d\udfe1 Notice<\/td>\n<td>Text or email inputs present<\/td>\n<td>The page may collect personal information<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\ud83d\udfe1 Caution<\/td>\n<td>Password field present<\/td>\n<td>A login form \u2014 only proceed if you fully trust the site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\ud83d\udd34 High Risk<\/td>\n<td>Form submits to a different domain<\/td>\n<td>A strong phishing indicator \u2014 do not enter any information<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The form detection result appears in the main results card, directly below the Connection Security check, so it&#39;s one of the first things you see \u2014 not something buried at the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n<h4 id=\"a-note-on-limitations\">A Note on Limitations<\/h4>\n<p>Because we analyse the static HTML source of the page, forms that are injected dynamically via JavaScript after the page loads may not be detected. This is a limitation of any server-side inspection approach. We surface what we can from the raw source, and we always recommend treating an unfamiliar link with caution regardless of the results.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 id=\"4-google-safe-browsing-integration\">4. Google Safe Browsing Integration<\/h3>\n<p>Every URL submitted to ExpandURL is checked against the Google Safe Browsing API \u2014 a constantly updated database of known malicious websites maintained by Google.<\/p>\n<p>If a match is found, we display a clear warning along with the nature of the threat. The categories we check for include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Malware<\/strong> \u2014 sites known to distribute software designed to damage or gain unauthorised access to your device<\/li>\n<li><strong>Potentially Harmful Applications<\/strong> \u2014 sites distributing apps that exhibit harmful behaviour<\/li>\n<li><strong>Unwanted Software<\/strong> \u2014 sites distributing software that doesn&#39;t meet acceptable standards<\/li>\n<li><strong>Social Engineering<\/strong> \u2014 sites designed to deceive users into sharing personal information or taking harmful actions (the technical classification for phishing)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If no threats are found, we display a clear confirmation that the link appears safe according to Google&#39;s database. A link to Google&#39;s advisory is always included so you can read more about how the Safe Browsing system works.<\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s important to understand that Safe Browsing is a blocklist \u2014 it catches known bad sites, but a newly created phishing page may not yet appear in the database. This is precisely why the other checks (form detection, HTTPS, redirect chain) provide valuable additional context.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 id=\"5-meta-information-and-page-preview\">5. Meta Information and Page Preview<\/h3>\n<p>For every destination URL, ExpandURL also fetches and displays the page&#39;s meta information \u2014 the data embedded in the HTML that describes the page&#39;s content:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Page Title<\/strong> \u2014 the title as defined by the site<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meta Description<\/strong> \u2014 the summary the site provides for search engines<\/li>\n<li><strong>Meta Keywords<\/strong> \u2014 any keywords the site has declared<\/li>\n<li><strong>Canonical URL<\/strong> \u2014 the URL the site considers its definitive address<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alongside this, we generate a <strong>screenshot preview<\/strong> of the destination page using an external rendering service. This lets you see what the page actually looks like before you decide whether to visit it.<\/p>\n<p>The combination of meta information and a visual preview gives you a strong sense of what kind of page you&#39;re dealing with \u2014 even before you click.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3 id=\"6-url-parameter-analysis\">6. URL Parameter Analysis<\/h3>\n<p>Shortened URLs frequently carry query string parameters that are invisible until the link is expanded. These parameters can serve a number of purposes, and ExpandURL categorises each one so you understand what it&#39;s doing.<\/p>\n<p>We currently identify three categories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Tracking parameters<\/strong> \u2014 used by advertisers and analytics platforms (such as Google, Meta, and HubSpot) to measure where traffic comes from. Examples include <code>utm_source<\/code>, <code>fbclid<\/code>, and <code>gclid<\/code>. These are very common on legitimate links and don&#39;t affect the destination page content.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Affiliate identifiers<\/strong> \u2014 parameters like <code>ref<\/code> or <code>aff_id<\/code> that indicate the link owner may earn a commission if you make a purchase after clicking.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Session and internal values<\/strong> \u2014 tokens, nonces, timestamps, and other values used by the site internally. These are normal but worth being aware of, as some can be used to pre-fill forms or identify you to the destination site.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each parameter is displayed in a table with its name, value, and category, along with a plain-English summary of what was found.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 id=\"putting-it-all-together\">Putting It All Together<\/h2>\n<p>No single check tells the full story of whether a link is safe. A page can have HTTPS and still be a phishing site. 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