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I assume they're just random numbers encoded in "base 62" or similar. http://birdhouse.org/blog/2010/10/24/base62-urls-django/ http://birdhouse.org/blog/2010/1
by staunch 15y ago
I assume they're just random numbers encoded in "base 62" or similar.
http://birdhouse.org/blog/2010/10/24/base62-urls-django/ http://birdhouse.org/blog/2010/10/24/base62-urls-django/
- reemrevnivek 15y agoIt would be base72; they use all the lowercase numbers, all the uppercase numbers, and all the digits.
- staunch 15y agoHow is it base72? A-Z = 26 a-z = 26 0-9 = 10 26 + 26 + 10 = 62
- reemrevnivek 15y agoderp. The GP's page said "... goal page URIs consisting of characters from this set: BASE62 = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" I missed the numbers in the middle. How embarrassing. Time to get offline...