3 ms·
How is providing a shorter URL not URL shortening? Just because it's not necessarily having to do a lookup? Wikipedia says: > URL shortening is a technique on
by valenterry 4y ago
How is providing a shorter URL not URL shortening? Just because it's not necessarily having to do a lookup?
Wikipedia says:
> URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the required page
That's what it is.
- JohnFen 4y ago> Just because it's not necessarily having to do a lookup? Yes. You aren't shortening a URL, you are serving a web page that has a short URL. I realize this is pedantic, but the relevance is that we're talking about URL shortening services, which this is not using. I don't mind short URLs much (although I greatly appreciate it if the URL gives me some hint of the content it's pointing at, even if that makes it longer). URL shortening services, however, come with additional problems that lead me to the opinion that they're unacceptable.