RE: tiny urls...... how long?

2004-02-21 Thread Erika L Walker-Arnold
I know makeashorter link is indefinitely ... like ... until their database dies or they have a problem. That's why I prefer to use it. -- -Original Message- From: Critter oi CF-Community,!!   anyone  know  how  long  tiny-urls  are vali

Re: Tiny Urls

2004-02-09 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I'd rather not rewrite other peoples posts if I can help it. > Why not have it detect each url and replace it so that we never have to see > it? > DRE [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [User Settings]

RE: Tiny Urls

2004-02-09 Thread Andre Turrettini
Why not have it detect each url and replace it so that we never have to see it? DRE -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 12:19 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Tiny Urls Oh, in that case I'll take it down. :) > I

Re: Tiny Urls

2004-02-09 Thread Michael Dinowitz
A hash is just more work that's really not needed for anything. I like to keep my code lean and tight. As for a random link thing, let me think of where I can put that and I'll add it in. Actually, all this would fit into the community section nicely. > > Please test it out and tell me what you th

RE: Tiny Urls

2004-02-09 Thread Haggerty, Mike
, 2004 2:44 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Tiny Urls How about converting the URLS into Chinese? - Matt Small   - Original Message -   From: Jim Campbell   To: CF-Community   Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 2:37 PM   Subject: Re: Tiny Urls   >Perhaps you could also add binary mode

Re: Tiny Urls

2004-02-09 Thread Michael Dinowitz
No. No way. No how. Just plain no. > How about converting the URLS into Chinese? > > - Matt Small >   - Original Message - >   From: Jim Campbell >   To: CF-Community >   Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 2:37 PM >   Subject: Re: Tiny Urls > > >   >Perha

Re: Tiny Urls

2004-02-09 Thread Michael Dinowitz
I wrote code to do this wy back when it first came up. Let me find it again and add it in. Just for fun. :) > >Perhaps you could also add binary mode? I would love to send people > giant strings of 1's and 0's as well. > > Wait, this again?  Ok! > > 011011110100011101000111001110100010

Re: Tiny Urls

2004-02-09 Thread Matthew Small
How about converting the URLS into Chinese? - Matt Small   - Original Message -   From: Jim Campbell   To: CF-Community   Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 2:37 PM   Subject: Re: Tiny Urls   >Perhaps you could also add binary mode? I would love to send people   giant strings of 1&#x

Re: Tiny Urls

2004-02-09 Thread Jim Campbell
as a tool (called Pornalizer, I think) that would >actually replace content for you and make it sound adult-oriented. > >HouseofFusion would become all things to all people if we had something >like that. > >Thanks, > >M > >-Original Message----- >From: Michae

Re: Tiny Urls

2004-02-09 Thread Kevin Graeme
Is there a way this tool could function in tiny and huge mode? In order > to deal with line wraps, you could replace the first several characters > in the hugeurl with a tiny url that would make it functional. What I think it really needs to do is to build a sequence of url rewrite sites together.

Re: Tiny Urls

2004-02-09 Thread Kevin Graeme
> Please test it out and tell me what you think. One thing I notice is that it's a simple incremented counter instead of a hash. Dunno if it matters, but I could see game of "go to a random link" in the future. -Kevin [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast Unsubscribe] [Use

RE: Tiny Urls

2004-02-09 Thread Haggerty, Mike
-- From: Michael Dinowitz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 09, 2004 2:19 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Tiny Urls Oh, in that case I'll take it down. :) > It wasn't that the tiny url failed to work. It was that I pasted in the > wrong thing which happened to be a

Re: Tiny Urls

2004-02-09 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Oh, in that case I'll take it down. :) > It wasn't that the tiny url failed to work. It was that I pasted in the > wrong thing which happened to be a reference to something local to my drive. > D'oh! > > -Kevin > > > > The last tiny url that was sent to the list basically failed to work. For > > t

Re: Tiny Urls

2004-02-09 Thread Kevin Graeme
It wasn't that the tiny url failed to work. It was that I pasted in the wrong thing which happened to be a reference to something local to my drive. D'oh! -Kevin > The last tiny url that was sent to the list basically failed to work. For > this reason (among others), I've written a fast tiny url

Re: Tiny Urls

2004-02-09 Thread Jim Campbell
It keeps telling me I have to log in, and I have logged in, multiple times.  The link on the bottom works great, though :) - Jim Michael Dinowitz wrote: >The last tiny url that was sent to the list basically failed to work. For >this reason (among others), I've written a fast tiny url system fo