I was wondering how they do it in email. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Bryan O'Neal < Bryan.ONeal@theonealandassociates.com> wrote: > Most services have an API. Even x.co has one. > On May 7, 2014 5:13 PM, "James Dugger" wrote: > >> ​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 * >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> 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 >