aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.com
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haha nice! I built the exact opposite the shortest possible URL shortener :) https://t.ly/
Thankfully, your URL can be lengthened to this: https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
Source code: https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
Great work! A bit of an edge case, but you do not handle cyrillic (and potentially other non-latin URLs) correctly. кц.рф didn’t work for me.
Fyi - I posted this link to the sub https://www.reddit.com/r/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA/ It seems to fit very well there.
I love long URLs and build them into my apps for sharing. You can have powerful apps that are 100% clientside and use just a dumb file web server. For example, here's a URL that contains both the grammar for a language that compiles to CSS and also example code. Works like a charm. https://jtree.treenotation.org/designer/#grammar%0A%20toolin...
Having written two apps that do this, I can confirm that it is an amazing technique, and criminally underutilized! My projects store and render entire pages from the URL and encrypt URLs (respectively): https://github.com/jstrieb/urlpages https://github.com/jstrieb/link-lock
Have you thought about having a non-obfuscated pretty version?
In addition to this:
https://jstrieb.github.io/urlpages/editor/#eyJjc3MiOiJ3aG9tI...
Offer a pretty version like:
https://jstrieb.github.io/urlpages/editor/#html...html-here.~css...body;background:red;~javascript...document.write('this-was-written-by-javascript.')Back 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…