It's so short that hacker news doesn't even show the domain in the heading :-)
http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener
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#22Earlier 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.)
Fine in Opera.
Re: http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener
#23I wrote a program to find the shortest URL. Enjoy!
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
use WWW::Mechanize;
die "usage: $0 " unless @ARGV;
$name = 'a';
$m = WWW::Mechanize->new;
while (1) {
print "Trying http://to./$name\n";
$m->post('http://to./', {
url => $ARGV[0],
name => $name,
'Witz that URL!' => 'Witz that URL!'
});
unless ($m->content =~ /sorry/) {
print "You got http://to./$name\n";
exit(0);
}
$name++;
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#24seems they have problems if the same url is used more than once.. the subsequent additions all break .. you can get around it by adding a query string on to the domain your shortening like ?like=this
Re: http://to/ World's Shortest URL Shortener
#25Chrome 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...
Yeah, Chrome does the same for me. I can click through the links just fine, but pasting into the URL bar (which you're probably going to have to do until the world updates its URL regexes) only gives me the option of a search, unless the URL's in the history.
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#27The fascination with url shorteners is really worrying and useless. Can we get past this fad?
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#28Sweet, I got http://to./m/r
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Works fine here with Google Chrome.
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