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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