​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 wrote: > welll, that's not quite what I meant. > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> nope, I don't. Oh well. Thanks. >> >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> >> >> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Matt Graham 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. >>> >>> -- >>> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress >>> There is no Darkness in Eternity >>> But only Light too dim for us to see. >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- James *Linkedin *