I know a LOT of people are very skeptical about clicking on tinyurls and 
similarly obvious redirection URLs.  They can be used to shorten a URL for 
convenience, but can also be abused and send unsuspecting users to web 
pages that they'd rather not visit.

This probably isn't a problem if both the target URL and the shortened 
version reside on your website - nobody is likely to notice the 
difference.  But if you're sending someone to a web page by going through 
a redirect located at a different site, then a user may click such a link 
once and then never again.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Leder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <cf-talk@houseoffusion.com>
Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 3:06 PM
Subject: Short URL / URL redirection


> I'm wanting to figure out how to take a long CF URL and convert to a 
> short
> URL for use in emails, etc.  Any methods, best practices, etc.  I really
> don't know where to start.


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