[ACFUG Discuss] Something like TinyURL?

2008-10-21 Thread shawn gorrell
Do any of you know of alternatives to TinyURL for taking long urls from something like a CMS and turning it into something much smaller? We have a CMS customer who doesn't like how many of our urls tend to behave when put in marketing PDF's or how they can look in an email. Looking for

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Something like TinyURL?

2008-10-21 Thread Teddy R. Payne
In your CMS, do you have the template paths or templates names stored in your persistence layer? I retrofitted a client once by add a front loader that referred an encrypted database key that was associated to a particular page view. The only due diligence was ensuring all templates were in the

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Something like TinyURL?

2008-10-21 Thread Cameron Childress
If you are on IIS, look into ISAPI Rewrite to create friendly URLs on your machines. IIRC, you can map it out to send friendly URL requests that match a RegEx pattern to CF for execution and then manage the friendly names in CF/Database. I suspect John Mason knows alot about this.

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Something like TinyURL?

2008-10-21 Thread shawn gorrell
Yeah, I think so. With an eye on how to make that work with our CMS (Spectra). - Original Message From: Cameron Childress [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discussion@acfug.org Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 10:10:38 AM Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Something like TinyURL? Are you looking

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Something like TinyURL?

2008-10-21 Thread shawn gorrell
From: Cameron Childress [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discussion@acfug.org Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 10:14:06 AM Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Something like TinyURL? If you are on IIS, look into ISAPI Rewrite to create friendly URLs on your machines. IIRC, you can map it out to send friendly URL

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Something like TinyURL?

2008-10-21 Thread Dean H. Saxe
Why not roll your own, it should be easy to do and you can maintain your own server name and not depend on 3rd parties... -dhs -- Dean H. Saxe [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Oct 21, 2008, at 10:05 AM, shawn gorrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do any of you know of alternatives to TinyURL for taking

Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Something like TinyURL?

2008-10-21 Thread Cameron Childress
longer than I'd like. - Original Message From: Cameron Childress [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discussion@acfug.org Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 10:14:06 AM Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] Something like TinyURL? If you are on IIS, look into ISAPI Rewrite to create friendly URLs on your