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A URL Lengthener

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Re: A URL Lengthener

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willcipriano wrote: post #73
jstrieb wrote: post #42

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I spent some time looking at similar specs for more recent browsers, but wasn't able to find anything useful. This was for a proof-of-concept I made that stores entire web pages in URLs (creatively named "URL Pages") by base64-encoding them and putting them in the URL fragment (the part after the "#"). https://github.com/jstrieb/urlpages The URLs this thing generates get pretty damn big sometimes, since I never got a…

I made a service to store arbitrary files as URLs that is similar. The hard part is files that are too large, I can handle files up to 5mb if you click on them all via local storage. Compression helps a lot as making them base64 increases the size quite a bit. https://podje.li

Could you make whole webpages just through urls? Such as they will completely portable? Portable being taken with a grain of sand ofc.

Re: A URL Lengthener

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schoen wrote: post #18
TimLeland wrote: post #5

haha nice! I built the exact opposite the shortest possible URL shortener :) https://t.ly/

For many years (but no longer) Vince Cate's Offshore Information Services had a DNS A record for the ccTLD "ai", so that http://ai/ was a valid URL that worked in browsers. (A few people also had e-mail addresses @ai.) Today, there are no longer any TLDs of any kind with their own A records. https://www.internic.net/domain/root.zone

  curl ai
Worked as well.
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