You'll noticeTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
1Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
WebFetchArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.232,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
When a fetch redirects, WebFetch now parses and checks the destination before relaying it, and says the page was at a location that was not fetched automatically rather than that it redirects to a different host.
Details
Non-http(s) destinations are withheld entirely.
Over-long URLs are truncated with a note; hostnames longer than a valid DNS name are flagged as unfetchable.
Only a clean, complete destination gets the follow-up instruction to call WebFetch again with those parameters.
Evidence
REDIRECT DETECTED: The URL redirects to a location that was not fetched automatically.
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
