url code

[Michael Havens]

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~(-:
>
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> 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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