nope, I don't. Oh well. Thanks.
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Matt Graham <
mhgraham@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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