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Short URLs: Why and How

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Re: Short URLs: Why and How

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Post by vampiretooth1 »

blowski wrote: post #4
Brajeshwar wrote: post #2

I own a 3-letter domain with a 2-letter TLD and still spells my family name. Many of my friends finds it cool when I share links via that domain. The links are indeed easy to remember but it comes at a higher yearly cost of renewal and I had forgotten to renew twice. Luckily, I was able to re-register them (nobody wants it, ;-)). Example https://oin.am/rr/

My name is Dan Blows, and my domain is da.nblo.ws, which I thought was the coolest thing ever. Most people are confused or don’t even notice it.

Reminded me for some reason of mikerowesoft.com - believe the story is that Microsoft sued the guy for infringement and ended up winning. Let's hope a tech company with the name Danblos or something doesn't blow up

Re: Short URLs: Why and How

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Post by kingcharles »

KineticArms wrote: post #132
Tomte wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to have a mail address along the lines of d@nblows.com But beware, single letter local parts are not universally supported by web sites. Microsoft accounts with those mail addresses are possible (they used to be impossible), but recently I stumbled upon two other web sites that didn't like single letter local parts.

I get told that my email is invalid by some apps, for using a .so domain. Apple was one that would not let me create an apple ID upon buying a new laptop. Eventually, I set up the machine without Apple ID, and opted to create it after the fact via apple.com which accepted it. It makes me wonder if it is intentionally a "Hard no" during system setup, and then a "well okay if you insist" when the user has installed the…

I have the same problem with my .one domain. Even though that TLD is about 7 years old, about 10% of sites won't accept it.

Re: Short URLs: Why and How

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Post by chipsa »

moritonal wrote: post #84
corlinpalmer wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My name’s Corlin and I own corl.in I sign up for accounts with emails like apple@corl.in and that lets me easily filter and organize my inbox. But when I have to tell some customer service rep my email they get very confused.

Can I ask how you host your emails? I have a similar situation but the price for most hosts for a wild-card domain is prohibitive.

I use Cloudflare Email Routing. Only problem I currently have is if I don't think ahead, I might have to setup the alias on the spot (probably should setup a catch all to make sure that it doesn't just drop them). And that redirects stuff to generally anywhere (though I mostly have it setup to redirect to an outlook.com family plan, which is already paid for for other reasons).

Re: Short URLs: Why and How

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Post by wccrawford »

Tomte wrote: post #7
blowski wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My name is Dan Blows, and my domain is da.nblo.ws, which I thought was the coolest thing ever. Most people are confused or don’t even notice it.

I used to have a mail address along the lines of d@nblows.com But beware, single letter local parts are not universally supported by web sites. Microsoft accounts with those mail addresses are possible (they used to be impossible), but recently I stumbled upon two other web sites that didn't like single letter local parts.

I literally had a bank tell me my email was invalid today. It was 2 letters before the @, and I think that's why. I'll probably come up with a longer one that I like (I own the domain) later and try again, but it just felt incredibly lame for them to reject my email like that.

Re: Short URLs: Why and How

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Post by mkr-hn »

mkr-hn wrote: post #114
joshu wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

del.icio.us

Just like old times. https://web.archive.org/web/20080906141421/http://blog.delic... >> "So why did we switch to delicious.com? We’ve seen a zillion different confusions and misspellings of “del.icio.us” over the years (for example, “de.licio.us”, “del.icio.us.com”, and “del.licio.us”), so moving to delicious.com will make it easier for people to find the site and share it with their friends. Of course the old del.ic…

Also: interview with Joshua Schachter on the Web Masters podcast. One of those rare podcasts where every episode is worth listening to.

https://latonas.com/blog/web-masters-episode-9-joshua-schach...

Re: Short URLs: Why and How

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Post by xmprt »

cinntaile wrote: post #59
xmprt wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http is still susceptible to man in the middle attacks even if the site contains no secrets. You have no guarantee that the contents of the website haven't been tampered with (not that attackers would have much incentive to tamper with a blog).

That's pretty much my point, there is no reason to meddle with the contents here. It's different if you live in a country where your ISP automatically MiTMs you (as a sibling comment to yours pointed out), but that's not a thing here at least. If you know that's a threat and it bothers you, you would likely already have measures in place anyway? But I admit it's a valid reason to have https.

> but that's not a thing here at least

Hackernews is a global website last time I checked so even if you don't face issues like that, many other users might.

Re: Short URLs: Why and How

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Post by mholt »

indigodaddy wrote: post #13

Regarding the example of instead of hi.html just name the file hi and use the nginx Config “default_type text/html” —- is there an equivalent to this for other webservers (Eg Caddy etc) ? Perhaps it would be cleaner to just create a directory called hi with and index.html?

With Caddy, keep your filename the same and use try_files:

    try_files {uri}.html {uri}
Done. (You can also add a redirect if you want to enforce that ONLY the non-.html version is used.)

Re: Short URLs: Why and How

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Post by [deleted] »

mijamo wrote: post #20
mikae1 wrote: post #6

Depending on how much your write, URL collisions can naturally become a real problem. If you use a SSG then all your post HTML documents will be in the same directory, forever. This isn't a problem if you don't spit out posts, but if you post a lot your directory can become rather unwieldy. I'd say, at least throw a year in there: /2022/su/.

SSG can usually be configured. You could have whatever folder structure you want and still have all the URLs straight under the root.

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Re: Short URLs: Why and How

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Post by indigodaddy »

mholt wrote: post #157
indigodaddy wrote: post #13

Regarding the example of instead of hi.html just name the file hi and use the nginx Config “default_type text/html” —- is there an equivalent to this for other webservers (Eg Caddy etc) ? Perhaps it would be cleaner to just create a directory called hi with and index.html?

With Caddy, keep your filename the same and use try_files: try_files {uri}.html {uri} Done. (You can also add a redirect if you want to enforce that ONLY the non-.html version is used.)

Cool, thanks!

Re: Short URLs: Why and How

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Post by nl »

cinntaile wrote: post #59
xmprt wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http is still susceptible to man in the middle attacks even if the site contains no secrets. You have no guarantee that the contents of the website haven't been tampered with (not that attackers would have much incentive to tamper with a blog).

That's pretty much my point, there is no reason to meddle with the contents here. It's different if you live in a country where your ISP automatically MiTMs you (as a sibling comment to yours pointed out), but that's not a thing here at least. If you know that's a threat and it bothers you, you would likely already have measures in place anyway? But I admit it's a valid reason to have https.

> but that's not a thing here at least

By using http you are assuming your "here" (where ever that is) is the same as where your readers are.

And if your "here" is in the US then hotel WiFi providers in the US are well known to have done MiTM to insert ads.

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