You can try something like this
http://www.ibc.com.au/fwd/l.cfm?lID=invest20050509
which points to this code in l.cfm
<cfparam name="lID" default="">
<cfscript>
links = StructNew();
StructInsert(links, "emailPrivacy20050509",
"http://asia.tech.yahoo.com/050504/afp/050504082225aht.html";);
</cfscript>
<cfif lID eq "all">
<cfset keyArray = StructKeyArray(links)>
<table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0>
<cfloop from="1" to="#arraylen(keyArray)#" index="i">
<tr>
<cfoutput>
<td>#keyArray[i]# </td>
<td>#links[keyArray[i]]#</td>
</cfoutput>
</tr>
</cfloop>
</table>
<cfelseif lID neq "">
<cfif StructKeyExists(links, lID)>
<cflocation url="#links[lID]#">
<cfelse>
<cflocation url="http://www.ibc.com.au/fwdFailed.asp";>
</cfif>
<cfelse>
<cflocation url="http://www.ibc.com.au/fwdFailed.asp";>
</cfif>
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim McAtee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: Short URL / URL redirection
> It's easily done, but I'm not sure why using application.cfm is necessary.
> Why not do both the db lookup and server side redirect in one CF file?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Munn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Talk" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 5:02 PM
> Subject: RE: Short URL / URL redirection
>
>
> > tinyurl is great for posting on forums and the like, but I don't think I
> > would use it for commercial purposes.
> >
> > I'm not sure the way their system works, but it seems like it would be
> > easy to make a URL-forwarding system using nothing but application.cfm
> > and index.cfm. application.cfm would contain a lookup system that would
> > intercept the incoming url and look it up against a database of
> > short-to-long url conversions. index.cfm would do a server-side
> > re-direct to the long url. simple.
> >
> >>http://tinyurl.com/
> >>
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: Mark Leder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Sent: May 19, 2005 14:07
> >>To: CF-Talk
> >>Subject: Short URL / URL redirection
> >>
> >>
> >>Hi all,
> >>
> >>I'm wanting to figure out how to take a long CF URL and convert to a
> >>short
> >>URL for use in emails, etc. Any methods, best practices, etc. I really
> >>don't know where to start.
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Mark
> >
> >
>
>
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