[ANN] tinyurl.com clone

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Steven Burn

Okay so I got bored. Coded sURL (Simple/Silly URL) a few days ago, just got
the domain through for it. sURL is my version of the tinyurl.com service,
with a few added extra's. sURL offers the follow URL creation methods;

Short URL
Long URL
Huge URL

And a special "Are you nuts!!!" option, which gives an extremely large URL
(just for fun, and hence the "Silly" name mentioned above).

I've also provided an extra for those using Avant Browser, to allow creating
URL's dynamically, along with the following Javascript for those that wish
to offer the service directly from their website's (was requested so figured
why the heck not).

Anyway, enough of my blabbing on, I'd love opinions.........?

http://surl.co.uk

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Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!
 
Steven Burn said:
Okay so I got bored. Coded sURL (Simple/Silly URL) a few days ago, just got
the domain through for it. sURL is my version of the tinyurl.com service,
with a few added extra's. sURL offers the follow URL creation methods;

Short URL
Long URL
Huge URL

And a special "Are you nuts!!!" option, which gives an extremely large URL
(just for fun, and hence the "Silly" name mentioned above).

I've also provided an extra for those using Avant Browser, to allow creating
URL's dynamically, along with the following Javascript for those that wish
to offer the service directly from their website's (was requested so figured
why the heck not).

Anyway, enough of my blabbing on, I'd love opinions.........?

http://surl.co.uk
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It's kewl. Though can you make the redirect not be a frames page so the
original domain will show up in the address bar?
 
Steven Burn said:
I've also provided an extra for those using Avant Browser, to allow creating
URL's dynamically, along with the following Javascript for those that wish
to offer the service directly from their website's (was requested so figured
why the heck not).
Click to expand...

Where's the Avant addon?
 
rach said:
It's kewl. Though can you make the redirect not be a frames page so the
original domain will show up in the address bar?
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I'm looking into the cause of this (just got the domain for it, have a
feeling it's got something to do with oneandone.co.uk's setup...... going to
take a look a little later).

Cheers for the comments :o)

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Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!
 
Cool! I thought aout doing that someday myself just for fun. Looks like
you did it with ASP. I'd do Java/JSP (since that's what I know).

Congrats!
 
Brian Pipa said:
Cool! I thought aout doing that someday myself just for fun. Looks like
you did it with ASP. I'd do Java/JSP (since that's what I know).

Congrats!
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hehe, cheers ;o)

I actually used a mix of ASP/ VBScript, Javascript, and a couple TypeLib's,
using an MS DB for the back-end and HTML/CSS for the front-end layout.
Nothing particularly fancy (haven't got round to a final design for the site
itself yet).

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!
 
Steven Burn said the following on 5/4/2004 11:59 AM:
Okay so I got bored. Coded sURL (Simple/Silly URL) a few days ago, just got
the domain through for it. sURL is my version of the tinyurl.com service,
with a few added extra's. sURL offers the follow URL creation methods;

Short URL
Long URL
Huge URL

And a special "Are you nuts!!!" option, which gives an extremely large URL
(just for fun, and hence the "Silly" name mentioned above).

I've also provided an extra for those using Avant Browser, to allow creating
URL's dynamically, along with the following Javascript for those that wish
to offer the service directly from their website's (was requested so figured
why the heck not).

Anyway, enough of my blabbing on, I'd love opinions.........?

http://surl.co.uk
Click to expand...

The Are you nuts URL doesn't seem to work. It creates an error message
saying the URL is too long in IE and doesn't show anything in Mozilla.
The service is great though.

You may want to have it check to see if a URL is already in your
database for having a Short/Long/Huge/Nuts redirect already. How does
your system work? Does it make sure that there is not already a
redirect that uses that number so that that URL can be a permanent redirect?

I actually made a very primative perl script that did this and used a
little databse to see what URL went where and which URL # should come next.

I think I'll be using this service often from now on. :)
 
Trey Hunner said:
The Are you nuts URL doesn't seem to work. It creates an error message
saying the URL is too long in IE and doesn't show anything in Mozilla.
The service is great though.
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</snip>

I tested the "ARE YOU NUTS!!!" methods in IE 5.5 and it worked just fine?

You may want to have it check to see if a URL is already in your
database for having a Short/Long/Huge/Nuts redirect already.
Click to expand...
</snip>

It already does this........

How does your system work? Does it make sure that there is not already a
redirect that uses that number so that that URL can be a permanent
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redirect?
</snip>

Yes.... once a URL is generated, it is there for life.
I actually made a very primative perl script that did this and used a
little databse to see what URL went where and which URL # should come next.

I think I'll be using this service often from now on. :)
Click to expand...

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!
 
Steven Burn said the following on 5/4/2004 8:28 PM:
It already does this........
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I tried adding my website www.freesoftwarereviews.com twice. It seemed
to work. http://surl.co.uk/?232 and http://surl.co.uk/?233 both point
to it. What I meant is that you may want to make sure that people don't
add the same URL mutltiple times, but instead give output like:
"This URL already has a Short URL. The Short URL is..."

This could prevent spamming and help keep the numbers in the lower
digits as long as possible.
 
Trey Hunner said:
This could prevent spamming and help keep the numbers in the lower
digits as long as possible.
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I've modified sURL to include this now, along with a "Force" method, to
over-ride it (the script checks for the first match only, which could be an
"ARE YOU NUTS????" created URL. Setting "Force" to True, simply tells the
script to create the URL anyway)

By default, the "Force" option is set to False (so it checks for the
existence of the target URL in the database)

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!
 
Okies.... made a few updates;

1. Removed "Force" option (no longer needed)
2. Modified the script to check for the existence of the target URL and ONLY
return it as true when the sURL associated with it, is numeric (i.e. if it
is a long/huge or ARN sURL, it will not view it as existing (mainly because
I don't see any reason for someone wanting to duplicate it, and it makes it
easier to return the sURL for the target).

3. Added info on the page for the usage of the different methods (just click
the ? next to the dropdown).
4. For those using Avant Browser, I've created a tip at the AB Archive site;

http://avant.it-mate.co.uk/default.asp?c=Tips&s=17#tip

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!
 
Steven Burn said the following on 5/5/2004 8:14 PM:
Okies.... made a few updates;

1. Removed "Force" option (no longer needed)
2. Modified the script to check for the existence of the target URL and ONLY
return it as true when the sURL associated with it, is numeric (i.e. if it
is a long/huge or ARN sURL, it will not view it as existing (mainly because
I don't see any reason for someone wanting to duplicate it, and it makes it
easier to return the sURL for the target).

3. Added info on the page for the usage of the different methods (just click
the ? next to the dropdown).
4. For those using Avant Browser, I've created a tip at the AB Archive site;

http://avant.it-mate.co.uk/default.asp?c=Tips&s=17#tip
Click to expand...

Just to let you know here are two *possible* bugs:
1. You can make an sURL to an sURL. Example: http://surl.co.uk/?316
http://surl.co.uk/?317 and http://surl.co.uk/?318
2. You can "http://www.google.com" is different than
"http://www.google.com/" when making an sURL
 
Trey Hunner said:
Just to let you know here are two *possible* bugs:
1. You can make an sURL to an sURL. Example: http://surl.co.uk/?316
http://surl.co.uk/?317 and http://surl.co.uk/?318
Click to expand...

You'll have to explain where the bug is here.....?
2. You can "http://www.google.com" is different than
"http://www.google.com/" when making an sURL
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This is actually deliberate (long story, don't ask)

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Regards

Steven Burn
Ur I.T. Mate Group
www.it-mate.co.uk

Keeping it FREE!
 
Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400
And a special "Are you nuts!!!" option, which gives an extremely large URL
(just for fun, and hence the "Silly" name mentioned above).
Click to expand...


Just wanted to you to know that the
"Are you nuts" created sURL address works in Opera 7.23
(I got a sURL address with 1046 characters)


/CoMa


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http://www.algonet.se/~hubbabub/
ICQ : 1351964
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Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652
Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400



Just wanted to you to know that the
"Are you nuts" created sURL address works in Opera 7.23
(I got a sURL address with 1046 characters)
Click to expand...


And the same "are you nuts" address also worked
in Mozilla Firefox 0.80+ (build 6 May 2004).


/CoMa


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Conny (CoMa) Magnusson
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.algonet.se/~hubbabub/
ICQ : 1351964
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and the most important to have.
 
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