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TheRealURL: URL Un-shortening Web Service With JSON/P Support
I built it initially as a joke, but perhaps it might actually be useful in some cases (eg, Twitter clients). Would love to hear HN feedback on possible applications etc.
- nir 17y agoI built it initially as a joke, but perhaps it might actually be useful in some cases (eg, Twitter clients). Would love to hear HN feedback on possible applications etc.
- nopal 17y agoAre you storing the results in the Datastore?
- nir 17y agoRight now, its all live. I'll probably add it later on, if it gets enough use that it makes sense. I wonder Google App Engine supports output caching, that might be even better performance-wise.
- mshafrir 17y agoI believe GAE only supports caching on static directory resources. http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/appconfig.html http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/config/appconfi...
- nir 17y agoI just added it lookup caching - ended up using memcache, turns out GAE supports it pretty nicely: http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/memcache/overview.html http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/memcache/overvi...