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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: url code
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:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Greg Warner <> wrote:

> Which email client are you using (e.g. gmail, outlook)?
>
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> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 11:23 PM, Michael Havens <> wrote:
>
>> I was wondering how they do it in email.
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 7:24 PM, Bryan O'Neal <
>> > wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>>>>>
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