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Does a URL shortener service exist that compresses the URL instead? It wouldn't be as short of course, but then you could recover the original URL yourself if t
by matb33 14y ago
Does a URL shortener service exist that compresses the URL instead? It wouldn't be as short of course, but then you could recover the original URL yourself if the service is down. A browser could, should this become a popular enough method, be capable of detecting such compressed URLs and doing the decompression and redirect
- kmfrk 14y agoDepending on how obscure your links are, you can use .htaccess to go from mysite.com/blog/2012/05/05/somethingsomethingsomething to mysite.com/s/1231, assuming it's not a static website. Stack Overflow do the same for instance.
- pavel_lishin 14y agoI think he's talking about something that shortens any arbitrary link.
- kmfrk 14y agoThat was my impression, too, but I just wanted to cover a - comparably - dead-simple solution, since we sometimes forget the old-school approaches to an agonizing problem. With .htaccess, there isn't really anything external - a new point of failure - to screw up the redirects.