On Thu, Jun 6, 2019 at 6:19 AM Victor Stinner <vstin...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Le jeu. 6 juin 2019 à 14:18, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> a > écrit : > > i.e. 25-40% longer. Is there a shorter permalink form available, like > > goo.gl, bitly, youtu.be etc use? That would be awesome if we could use > > them instead. > > I really dislike URL shorteners. > > From my point of view, URL shorteners are the opposite of permanent > links. It adds a new single point of failure. > Unless you run your own shortener... operated it part of the infrastructure the shortened links will be going to. In which case the shortened url service prevents the need to modify each and every application to handle shorter things on its own. That way short urls can be made meaningful on their own to indicate where they link to while still being a friendly to avoid gross wrapping length. We could implement our own automatic short namespaces such as https://url.python.org/mail/ideas/48+bit-random-id goo.gl and youtu.be are examples of site specific url shorteners already used this way (now that goo.gl has stopped / is stopping offering itself as a public bit.ly clone service) This also avoids one (of many) ways of giving traffic log stats away to a third party hosting the service. -gps > If a full URL becomes broken (HTTP error 404), I can still try to get > find the information in a different way using the full URL. For > example, there are some services like archive.org who archive public > websites. Or look in other emails "around" this email, maybe the > missing email is quoted from another email. > > Victor > -- > Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. > Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev(a)python.org > To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-leave(a)python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/
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