Compact URL
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Topic: Compact URL
Posted By: 808Rider
Subject: Compact URL
Date Posted: 24 August 2003 at 3:24am
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Found another great site I wanted to share. This one allows you to take a large url and compact it into something a little smaller. I found it useful when trying to add something like the url to an image in a signature on a Web Wiz Forum. Maybe you will find other uses for it also.
Check it out here: http://compacturl.com/cgi-bin/compact - http://compacturl.com/cgi-bin/compact Example: http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=1&PN=1&FID=1&PR=3 - http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=1&PN=1&FID=1&PR=3 was converted to http://compactURL.com/xkot - http://compactURL.com/xkot
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Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 24 August 2003 at 5:41am
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There is also http://tinyurl.com - TinyURL ------------- L. Jamal Walton http://www.ljamal.com/" rel="nofollow - L. Jamal Inc : Web/ Print Design and ASP Programming |
Posted By: zMaestro
Date Posted: 25 August 2003 at 12:07pm
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what is the problem if you wrote this: <A Href="http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=1&PN=1&FID=1&PR=3">http://compactURL.com/xkot</A> I didn't get it...
oh... u mean easily to remember or what? |
Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 25 August 2003 at 12:17pm
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It's short.
If you use plain text emails, then your URL will get cut off and move to the next line if it's to long and then the email program will not detect it as a complete URL and only hyperlink part of it. ------------- L. Jamal Walton http://www.ljamal.com/" rel="nofollow - L. Jamal Inc : Web/ Print Design and ASP Programming |
Posted By: Bliss
Date Posted: 25 August 2003 at 12:23pm
I have that problem with the activation email these forums send out. Especially if you have ? and querystrings. I hate copying and pasting the URL back together. ------------- Hehehe... |
Posted By: KCWebMonkey
Date Posted: 25 August 2003 at 12:57pm
So, if their site goes down, then all of your "compact url's" are useless? |
808Rider wrote:Posted By: 808Rider
Date Posted: 26 August 2003 at 12:25am
This is true of any site whether it is using Compact URL or the real URL correct? This is the nature of the internet, site's go down.
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