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Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener in PHP

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Re: Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener in PHP

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Post by dozzie »

simple10 wrote: post #14

Not to dis Polr, but if performance and minimalism are your thing, there are a lot of nginx + lua + redis URL shorteners on github. Two random'ish selections... https://gist.github.com/MendelGusmao/2356310 https://github.com/sanshi0518/shorturl-nginx

Minimalism and Redis don't go hand-in-hand at all.

Re: Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener in PHP

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Post by lsaferite »

simple10 wrote: post #14

Not to dis Polr, but if performance and minimalism are your thing, there are a lot of nginx + lua + redis URL shorteners on github. Two random'ish selections... https://gist.github.com/MendelGusmao/2356310 https://github.com/sanshi0518/shorturl-nginx

Just a few seconds of searching for a go based one yielded: https://github.com/samwierema/go-url-shortener

Re: Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener in PHP

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Post by intenscia »

Congratulations on the release but I can just discourage people to use URL shorteners. They obfuscate key information, are potentially a security risk as a result, require extra http requests and what happens in the future when you turn the service off? A trend I've never fancied.

Re: Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener in PHP

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Post by poopsintub »

munger wrote: post #17
dubcanada wrote: post #9

Why is the entire vendor directory in github? I'm fairly certain some of those packages cannot be redistributed like that.

Agree. What is the point of using composer or any dependency manager if you check-in the vendor folder?

That's default GitHub settings. I assume you couldn't easily rebuild the project if you cloned it down as mentioned by another.

Re: Polr – A modern, minimalist, and lightweight URL shortener in PHP

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Post by corobo »

intenscia wrote: post #24

Congratulations on the release but I can just discourage people to use URL shorteners. They obfuscate key information, are potentially a security risk as a result, require extra http requests and what happens in the future when you turn the service off? A trend I've never fancied.

On the other hand if you're linking to something you don't control and you need to track stats then use branded URL shorteners.

Sometimes there are valid use cases for things.

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