url code

[Bryan O'Neal]

Most services have an API. Even x.co has one.
On May 7, 2014 5:13 PM, "James Dugger" <james.dugger at gmail.com> 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).
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> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> welll, that's not quite what I meant.
>>
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
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>> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> nope, I don't. Oh well. Thanks.
>>>
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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