nope, I don't. Oh well. Thanks. :-)~MIKE~(-:
On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Matt Graham <mhgra...@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. > > -- > Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress > There is no Darkness in Eternity > But only Light too dim for us to see. > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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