Love it. This is going in the toolbox along with http://shadyurl.com
Below is a link I generated for https://twitter.com/home
http://www.5z8.info/winamp-cracked.exe_x8c5se_how2pipebomb
Thank you for this, I laughed hard.
A URL Lengthener
aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com
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Re: A URL Lengthener
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#73fun fact. in the browser wars of 1993(?) i looked at the specs from netscape (mozilla dady for the young folks) and microsoft (what w3c? ha!) and netscape release a browser spec that said "X must support up to Y", as in "url must be up to 1024 chars", "cookies must be up to 1mb", etc... then microsoft release IE4 (or 6?) web spec. It was literally a copy of netscape's but with "up to" replaced with "at least". and fr…
I spent some time looking at similar specs for more recent browsers, but wasn't able to find anything useful. This was for a proof-of-concept I made that stores entire web pages in URLs (creatively named "URL Pages") by base64-encoding them and putting them in the URL fragment (the part after the "#"). https://github.com/jstrieb/urlpages The URLs this thing generates get pretty damn big sometimes, since I never got a…
I made a service to store arbitrary files as URLs that is similar. The hard part is files that are too large, I can handle files up to 5mb if you click on them all via local storage. Compression helps a lot as making them base64 increases the size quite a bit.
Re: A URL Lengthener
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#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you happen to have the exact wording? As far as I can tell these mean the same thing. 1. "You must support URL length up to 100 characters" -> your browser must support URLs that are 100 characters or less (and may or may not support longer ones) 2. "Your supported URL length must be at least 100 character" -> You must support URLs that are 100 characters or less (and may or may not support longer ones)
"At least" means more than or equal to. In other words, the 'least' it can be is 100 characters, with no upper bound.
The supported URL length is at least 100 characters, not the URL length.
Re: A URL Lengthener
#76I'm a bit disappointed that the lengthened URL for http://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... itself doesn't work. That is:
https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
EDIT: Uh, I don't know what I did differently, but this one works:
https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
EDIT: Looks like the site is actively being updated, there are new option checkboxes, the self-reference link only works with "Use a path instead of an URL" checked
EDIT: I repeatedly lengthened maybe a dozen times, that seems to get it stuck in a loop:
https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
Re: A URL Lengthener
#77Back in the early days of web hosting I recall that a customer had a domain name that was literally as long as ICANN would allow at the time. It was very nearly a full sentence. I don't recall the limit but this domain aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com is 57 characters (not including .com) and I think that sounds familiar. One could have a lot of fun with that if they wanted to (and such as…
It's been years since I've seen or heard an ad for dontbeaweekendparent.com, but I still remember it, even though there's zero chance I'll ever need their services. Sometimes a long domain name can be useful.
I remember weallgetthingscheaperwhenwebuyinagroup.com
Which I think was advertised on TV in the UK when I was a teen
Re: A URL Lengthener
#78Awesome to see a Replit app on top of HN! Our hosted apps proxy requests per second doubled (3k to 6k) by virtue of this being on HN.
This app is fully made and hosted on Replit using Replit DB too:
Frontend: https://replit.com/@piemadd/url-lengthener
Backend: https://replit.com/@piemadd/ax56api
Check out other Replit Apps here (launched yesterday): https://replit.com/apps
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#79Mods complain about people making comments that are "obvious" but they don't complain about URL hiding services?
Here is an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27122041
Re: A URL Lengthener
#80haha nice! I built the exact opposite the shortest possible URL shortener :) https://t.ly/
You've shortened 6,463,545 links so far. Assuming you're using a charset of [A-Za-z0-9], that gives you 14,776,336 total possible 4-character URLs. Almost half way there! What's your plan once you reach the 4-character limit? Roll over to 5, or something fancier?
Yes, you are correct. I don't have anything fancy planned. Users with accounts are able to customize the ending so this will increase the availability. Currently, Bitly is up to 7 characters long when you create a random short URL. T.LY is already 2 characters shorter and there are still plenty of short random URLs 62^5 = 916,132,832