Yeah,
That UDF makes longer URLs. That reminds me I need to send Ray an update for
that one.
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Ian Lurie [mailto:ian@;portentinteractive.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 2:02 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Shorter urls?
You're right - I just tested it.
On 10/29/02 10:52 AM, "Matt Liotta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't believe encrypting the URL as this UDF does is the way to go. If
> I read it correctly, the order of the URL variables in the query string
> will affect the encrypted value. The code I posted in response to the
> original question does not suffer from this problem.
>
> Matt Liotta
> President & CEO
> Montara Software, Inc.
> http://www.montarasoftware.com/
> 888-408-0900 x901
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ian Lurie [mailto:ian@;portentinteractive.com]
>> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 1:45 PM
>> To: CF-Talk
>> Subject: Re: Shorter urls?
>>
>> Thanks - I found the UDF I was looking for:
>>
>>
>> http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=212&enable=1
>>
>>
>> On 10/29/02 10:39 AM, "Benjamin S. Rogers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> If you put a ".cfm" on the end, you can handle the request in the
>>> Application.cfm page. If you are using IIS, you have to tell it not
> to
>>> check to make sure the page exists. This is a setting specific to
> the
>>> application mapping.
>>>
>>> Or, you can use an ISAPI extension (IIS) or mod_rewrite (Apache) to
>>> rewrite the URL before it even gets to ColdFusion. There's a free
> one
>>> for IIS called ISAPI_Rewrite (http://www.isapirewrite.com).
>>>
>>> Benjamin S. Rogers
>>> http://www.c4.net/
>>> v.508.240.0051
>>> f.508.240.0057
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Ian Lurie [mailto:ian@;portentinteractive.com]
>>> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 1:27 PM
>>> To: CF-Talk
>>> Subject: Shorter urls?
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I've searched the devcenter, google, etc. but can't seem to find any
>>> discussion of how to generate shorter URL strings. I want to take:
>>>
>>> http://www.site.com?action=blah&brand=1&name=blahblah&;....
>>>
>>> And convert it to
>>>
>>> http://www.site.com/asdfwer234123
>>>
>>> I've seen it done but just can't remember where. Can someone send me
> a
>>> url?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>> Ian
>>
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>>
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