Show HN: A Url Permanence Service

#1

Post by dRocking » Sun, Dec 02, 2012, 3:00 PM UTC

Show HN: A Url Permanence Service
purl.ly

Re: Show HN: A Url Permanence Service

#2

Post by dRocking » Sun, Dec 02, 2012, 3:28 PM UTC

It's pretty quick and dirty... purl.ly links will detect a 404 at the destination and redirect you to the google cache instead. Works great if that page is in the google cache, but it may not be.

I'll get around to caching the full content of the destinations at time of purl.ly creation next, and serve that if google is missing it.

Re: Show HN: A Url Permanence Service

#3

Post by detectify » Sun, Dec 02, 2012, 3:35 PM UTC

Tried the service and got two errors first,

I cannot add a URL that does not have "http" I cannot type a URL that has "https"

Would be nice to be able to add https adresses and add them in any form.

Also an idea, make it as a web browser plugin so I can change the url in the brower and add it to my link library. Then it's even better. I don't like detours.

Question, what happen if I prul.ly a Url once then the content changes and I want to save the new content as well (Different content, same url)?

Anyway, I really like the concept, keep going!

Annelie @detectify

Re: Show HN: A Url Permanence Service

#4

Post by Foomandoonian » Sun, Dec 02, 2012, 3:36 PM UTC

Interesting choice to use a Libyan domain for a service like this.

Re: Show HN: A Url Permanence Service

#5

Post by Hello71 » Sun, Dec 02, 2012, 4:06 PM UTC

So it's basically WebCite.

Re: Show HN: A Url Permanence Service

#6

Post by secure » Sun, Dec 02, 2012, 4:09 PM UTC

Sounds cool, but only as long as purl.ly itself is up. We’ve seen what happens with single point of failure services like this when twitter’s link shortener t.co was down.

Re: Show HN: A Url Permanence Service

#7

Post by level09 » Sun, Dec 02, 2012, 4:23 PM UTC

looks similar to what archive.org is doing, except that the later saves complete websites recursively ..

Re: Show HN: A Url Permanence Service

#8

Post by chinmoy » Sun, Dec 02, 2012, 4:34 PM UTC

Foomandoonian wrote: post #4

Interesting choice to use a Libyan domain for a service like this.

How is using a Libyan domain interesting here? Bit.ly is doing it.

Re: Show HN: A Url Permanence Service

#9

Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Sun, Dec 02, 2012, 4:43 PM UTC

Looks like not many people are actually using it:

http://purl.ly/purl/index

Re: Show HN: A Url Permanence Service

#10

Post by antirez » Sun, Dec 02, 2012, 4:43 PM UTC

This is a good idea in theory, but not if in form of a company. This would require something like a consortium where Google, Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, ... and a few more federates to create a service paying for the bill and with the intention to take it up for the future as long as possible.