I think it would be very beneficial to make the attend URL reusable in other modules for situations when it can be safely known that the user is registered to a webinar and that webinar is already running.
The benefit of using direct url instead of 'node/%node/redirect/attend' is that php workers can be saved on sites with high traffic :)

Please see attached patch.

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Actually, this should be more of a question - is this actually possible/safe to do?

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Could you explain the advantages? Why don't you want to use the url `/node/%nid/meeting/attend' ?

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As I stated previously, php workers can be saved - in a situation when few dozens (or even hundreds) of people want to join at the same exact moment (e.g. in my case, they all get a pop-up message). I know it's just a redirect, but even though, if several hundred people hit '/node/%nid/meeting/attend' at the same exact moment, they will eat up server workers easily.