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It would be great if someone with an ultra-short URL could run one of the "what's my IP address" sites on it, like: ifconfig.co ifconfig.pm ifconfig.show ipaddr.in ipconfig.io They return plain-text IP address to curl/wget, while serving up a more detailed web page to other web browsers.
aka.ms is short but probably not thr shortest, but I would say it is the shortest most popular url possibly. For those who don't know, that is MS's link shortner for official URLs
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At Google and many other tech companies, internal machines are configured to have go/ work just like you describe. Looks like someone even made a whole company around it https://www.golinks.com/blog/go-links-history/
Intel had that when I worked there
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At Google and many other tech companies, internal machines are configured to have go/ work just like you describe. Looks like someone even made a whole company around it https://www.golinks.com/blog/go-links-history/
Intel had that when I worked there
Although it's nowhere near as short as ai , I like bl.uk
How about: y.uk
http://ai is an interesting case. It was there from the early days of the web, back when you could type "ai" into the mozilla url bar and it would take you there. Today firefox "helps" you out and changes what you typed into something else because it knows better than you do what web site you want. It's run by a character named Vince Cate who moved to Anguilla to protest taxes or something. He was from the US and gav…
Very cyberpunk.
(And I checked; ai.security is parked. Very amusing.)
Shortest address is http://1 Not on the internet, though. Just on the network. Kinda surprised Linux routes 0.0.0.1 to my router, when used as a destination address. Might be fun to use it as a local redirector whitout having to do any DNS shenanigans. Edit: yep, it works
That's new in 2019 (0/8 was prohibited), and there is a story... https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
An empty hostname is invalid according to RFC 7230:
A sender MUST NOT generate an "http" URI with an empty host identifier. A recipient that processes such a URI reference MUST reject it as invalid.
This requirement also carries over to HTTPS.