I built one myself - its quite easy.

You take a long url, check to see if it hasn't been stored in the db, if it
hasn't, create a unique id and store the unique id against that url.

Whenever someone clicks the shorterlink - retrieve it using that id and then
redirect!

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lovelock, Richard J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 19 February 2004 09:15
> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Email Links Splitting
> 
> 
> that's a bit nifty!! how does that work - something to do 
> with DNS??? (havent time to read through help etc on site)
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Beynon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 19 February 2004 09:04
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Email Links Splitting
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> 
> You could try using www.tinyurl.com to make a 'tiny' URL 
> instead and paste that into the email?
> 
> Jb.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lovelock, Richard J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 19 February 2004 09:03
> To: 'cflist'
> Subject: [ cf-dev ] Email Links Splitting
> 
> Morning Guys/Gals
>  
> (sorry if i am supposed to be using the dedicated list yet - 
> am I?? haven't had time to sort it out yet)
>  
> I need a pretty urgent response if possible..
>  
> We have an application on our website which allows Met Police 
> officers to send out Email newsletters usinf CFMail.
>  
> An officer wants to send out an email with a link to a 
> document but the link is quite long and goes over two  lines 
> which breaks the link from the first line (i.e. the text on 
> the 2nd line doesn't stay as part of the text)
>  
> This also happened when he inserted the link just in to a 
> normal email to me
>  
> Is there anything I can do to ensure that his link stays 
> together as a hyperlink even if it gets split over two lines?
>  
>  
> 
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