It is common to see shortened URLs while on social media linking to an outside source but even though the article may be enticing you should be cautious before you click a link and land on a site that is the cyber equivalent of a petri dish at the CDC.



This lightweight tool aims to help take the guess work out by giving the URL an easy-to-read roadmap map so to say - it allows you to at least know the destination and make an educated decision rather than just blackballing all shortened URLs for fear of landing on a malicious site.

httpres is a small utility that allows you to safely monitor and display content, headers as well as response code from HTTP requests - perfect for
finding out where that short URL actually leads.

httpres is very user-friendly and permits you to quickly expand any short links in order to keep you in control of determining where a suspicious link may take you before it's too late. You can then save the data to a text file for future reference or analysis.

httpres Features:

Displays server header response

Supports HTTPS

Ability to set useragent

Supports POST method

Load & save POST variables

Download @ http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/httpres.html