Geolocation specific redirect

[mvandenabeele]

Device-specific redirects are a nice feature. Would it be possible to add geolocation based redirects as well? It would be great if American users could use an American server to download files, while European users could use a server closer to them.

Thanks for the work that has been put in. Shlink is a nice tool to gain insight in our downloads.

[acelaya]

That's one task that you usually don't want to handle through the URL shortener itself.

There are services better suited for this, like CDNs, which allow you to dynamically redirect traffic to different infrastructure based on proximity, at a DNS level.

Even if Shlink was able to do this, you would still need some mechanism to achieve the same for Shlink itself.

So at the end of the day it falls out of Shlink's logical scope, it's mostly an edge case, and would introduce a lot of complexity.