All YouTube URLs are Now Expanded

Hi Folks,
All my links to YouTube links are being changed at present as BLC REDIRECTS. At the moment >500 and counting and all return an HTTP code: 200

Typically, URL a YouTube is just: https://youtu.be/SMkNDvX_Niw
However, BLC Redirect now wants to change that to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMkNDvX_Niw&feature=youtu.be

Since many of the URLs are simple text lists of URLs, this makes the whole pages and comments look bad as the formatting did not allow for these long URLs.

Is this redirect URL being required by BLC or YouTube?

I have stopped fixing the issues for the time being as there are too many to do one at a time, as I need to check the particular page situations.

Below is the Detail info from BLC. All 500+ are the same.
Regards and thanks,
Angus

LEFT COLUMN:
Link last checked: April 18, 2019
HTTP code: 200
Response time: 0.905 seconds
Final URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMkNDvX_Niw&feature=youtu.be
Redirect count: 1
Instance count: 1

RIGHT COLUMN:
Log: === HTTP code : 200 ===

Response headers
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HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Content-Length: 0
Location: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMkNDvX_Niw&feature=youtu.be
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 02:14:00 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Server: YouTube Frontend Proxy
X-XSS-Protection: 0
Alt-Svc: quic=”:443″; ma=2592000; v=”46,44,43,39″
Connection: close

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000
X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
P3P: CP=”This is not a P3P policy! See https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/151657?hl=zh-HK for more info.”
Expires: Tue, 27 Apr 1971 19:44:06 EST
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2019 02:14:01 GMT
Server: YouTube Frontend Proxy
X-XSS-Protection: 0
Set-Cookie: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE=0odFynrUMvc; path=/; domain=.youtube.com; expires=Tue, 15-Oct-2019 02:14:00 GMT; httponly
Set-Cookie: PREF=f1=50000000; path=/; domain=.youtube.com; expires=Tue, 17-Dec-2019 14:07:01 GMT
Set-Cookie: YSC=UV_gRF_QYuI; path=/; domain=.youtube.com; httponly
Set-Cookie: GPS=1; path=/; domain=.youtube.com; expires=Thu, 18-Apr-2019 02:44:00 GMT
Alt-Svc: quic=”:443″; ma=2592000; v=”46,44,43,39″
Accept-Ranges: none
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Connection: close

Request headers
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HEAD /watch?v=SMkNDvX_Niw&feature=youtu.be HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.102 Safari/537.36
Host: https://www.youtube.com
Accept: */*
Referer: https://www.hiskingdomprophecy.com
Connection: close

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• This topic was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by HKP.