Chrome doesn't really like the URLs, and Twitter doesn't see them either. Awesome, though.
works fine in chrome for Linux...
http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener
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#12Chrome doesn't really like the URLs, and Twitter doesn't see them either. Awesome, though.
It's a DNS rather than a browser issue, I think
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#13Can someone give me a quick introduction on how this was done?
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#14Can someone give me a quick introduction on how this was done?
A-record by the ISP that runs the .to TLD.
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#17Seems to require a dot in the URL: This: http://to./z0ba1 Not this: http://to/z0ba1
Depends on your DNS. Works for some without.
The dns works. But the browser doesn't. Without the trailing dot the browser looks up the .com address.
With the dot it works, but then the browser fixes up the url, and removes the dot - so all subsequent requests don't work.
(This is for me, using firefox on linux.)
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#18Can someone give me a quick introduction on how this was done?
1- Periods (.) don't do anything after a domain (ie www.weebly.com.), but they are useful for preventing the browsers from redirecting to http://www.to.com/
2- The real domain we're looking at: "to" -- no "suffix" attached (TLD: top-level domain)
3- The .to registry added an A-record for the "to" domain, which resolves correctly.
[Edit: Looks like .cm does this too:
;; ANSWER SECTION:
cm. 86400 IN A 195.24.205.60]
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
Depends on your DNS. Works for some without.
The dns works. But the browser doesn't. Without the trailing dot the browser looks up the .com address. With the dot it works, but then the browser fixes up the url, and removes the dot - so all subsequent requests don't work. (This is for me, using firefox on linux.)
seems safari users are struggling without the . as well .. probably a webkit issue then
edited for spelling mistake
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#20Chrome doesn't really like the URLs, and Twitter doesn't see them either. Awesome, though.
Funny, it's working under my current configuration with Firefox but not with Opera and Chrome translates it in a Google search.
Not the world's best URL shortener...