A blast from the past (~15 years ago) - I just stumbled upon a JS library (https://github.com/follow-redirects/follow-redirects) that Umbraco's acceptance tests use (transient dependency) and saw it was created by Ruben Verborgh. That name rang.. a bell 🔔 Turns out he created the first MySQL implementation in Umbraco 3 https://web.archive.org/web/20110116201316/http://forum.umbraco.org/yaf_postst2217_redirect.aspx - and look at all those young faces of @Warren Buckley and @Kenneth Solberg !