url code

[James Dugger]

​What is the context of the use case, website you are creating, or save
typing (CLI)?  If it is a website, is it static (html only) or dynamic
(PHP, Python, ASP.NET)?  Where is the site hosted, locally (you), ISP (Cox,
CentruryLink, etc), hosting company (Hostmonster, GoDaddy, etc).



On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> welll, that's not quite what I meant.
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> nope, I don't. Oh well. Thanks.
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Matt Graham <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On 2014-05-07 12:44, Michael Havens wrote:
>>>
>>>> How do I I condense long urls ? You know, the 'click here' where the
>>>> 'here' is a link to your address.
>>>>
>>>
>>> If you meant "I want to link to http://www.giantitp.com/
>>> forums/showthread.php?t=59834 (silly post about the Beige Dragon) but
>>> the giantitp link is a whole lot to type.  I'd rather use something like
>>> http://crow202.org/22 ," then you would use a URL shortener.  There are
>>> a bunch of them.  bit.ly and goo.gl are popular IIRC.  These things
>>> usually end up giving you " http://goo.gl/654321 ", and if you go
>>> there, the server there looks up 654321 in a huge table and gives you a 301
>>> redirect to http://example.com/a/really/huge/long/location/ .
>>>
>>> I wrote my own because it was a fairly easy thing to do, and all the
>>> extant publicly-usable URL shorteners almost certainly use tracking cookies
>>> and/or piles of JS garbage.  You probably don't have a webhost to put a URL
>>> shortener on though.
>>>
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