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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
Shorter: ftp://1 Anyone knows a shorter protocol name that is widely supported/known?
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…
You still can type "ai." (including the dot, excluding the quotation) in your browser. Works in firefox (tested in 104), however does not work in Chrome (tested in Chromium 105).
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I think on Windows machines you can use `\\` to access a machine via SMB, so `\\1` would be the shortest if you're happy with Windows-only.
//1 turns into file:///1 everywhere AFAIK
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Shorter: ftp://1 Anyone knows a shorter protocol name that is widely supported/known?
Both Chrome and Firefox have actually recently removed support for ftp:// for security reasons.
From that list, you could use http:// ㎝. / - that's U+339D if HN mangles it.
I wrote it up at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/08/buying-a-single-character-d...
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I suspect it gets mapped to 1.0.0.1 because no other resolution is possible. Any other locations for the two zeros results in an invalid IP (either starting or ending in 0).
Absolutely nothing wrong with ending with a .0. I suspect you are confused by n.n.n.0/24 being a network address in a /24 network which is obviously very common. However there are way more networks of other sizes that have .0 addresses in them.
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
It's also used quite extensively internally for company wide resources. Any employee can create aka.ms urls, here is one for your comment: https://aka.ms/AAhztyq
Like aka.ms/mango or aka.ms/inglor?
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…
You still can type "ai." (including the dot, excluding the quotation) in your browser. Works in firefox (tested in 104), however does not work in Chrome (tested in Chromium 105).