On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Erik <pyt...@lucidity.plus.com> wrote: > >> I often like to make a small >> change when I reimplement, though - something that I thought was >> ill-designed in the original, > > > OK, so maybe the idea for Vinicius (if he's still reading) to pursue is that > it should be something that can be used as the basis for a URL shortening > "service" that is distributed and can NOT go away (think DNS). That is what > some people don't like about the URL shorteners, so maybe that's an itch > that he might want to scratch. > > I've no idea if other such projects already exist, it just occurred to me > when responding.
Now THAT is an interesting idea. I don't know how it would be handled, though; since there has to be additional information that isn't in the URL, and has to *not* be on any server that can go down, it basically has to be a distributed thing somehow. So you'd need to look into how things like Bitcoin work. It'd be pretty cool if it could work! ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list