For anyone who wants to self host a URL lengthener https://github.com/asim/url
A URL Lengthener
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Re: A URL Lengthener
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#233This can also be done using data urls. You can make a long URL encoding a HTML doc with a meta redirect
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#234Who needs this when you can simply use Google search results URL
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Re: A URL Lengthener
#235Who needs this when you can simply use Google search results URL https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&c...
Yeah and it's always annoying to get the original url from google search page. :(
Re: A URL Lengthener
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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 needed to send data over GET in 2012/2013 and built my own tiny LZW-alike compression to squeeze as much as possible into the 100kb which seemed to be the safe limit for non-ie browsers at the time
I did that too, but the limit in my language was around 1024 characters in URL's so had to make small packets to send data.
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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. https://podje.li
Could you make whole webpages just through urls? Such as they will completely portable? Portable being taken with a grain of sand ofc.
Yes, I did this for self-contained reports in maybe 2014. All images referenced (containing diagrams) were embedded as data URIs. Restrictions are AFAIK more picky now, though so YMMV in 2021.
Re: A URL Lengthener
#239Microsoft also provides a URL lengthener via "Advanced Outlook.com security for Office 365 subscribers". Thanks to them, any URL we send or receive by email at work turns into an unrecognizable monster. At least the links include comforting words like "safelinks" and "protection" so that everyone can feel safe and protected.
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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. https://podje.li
Could you make whole webpages just through urls? Such as they will completely portable? Portable being taken with a grain of sand ofc.
Well webpages themselves including links, the embedding would need to be recursive.