Tell HN: t.co is adding a five-second delay to some domains

>>xslowz+(OP)
I can confirm. NYT shows a five-second redirect delay: "wget https://t.co/4fs609qwWt". It redirects to gov.uk immediately: "wget https://t.co/iigzas6QBx"

>>kens+71
Im not getting the same time delay with curl

- `time wget https://t.co/4fs609qwWt` -> `0m5.389s`

- `time curl -L https://t.co/4fs609qwWt` -> `0m1.158s`

>>_a9+U2
And now add browser user-agent to the curl request and watch how slow it gets.

- `time curl -A "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/81.0" -L https://t.co/4fs609qwW` -> 4.730 total

- `time curl -L https://t.co/4fs609qwWt` -> 1.313 total

Same request, the only difference is user-agent.

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