On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:15:53PM +1300, Helmut Walle wrote: > > Which of these is useful, which is strange, and which is just plain > > wrong? > Yes, the problem is obvious, it is a little bit like dialling a mobile > phone number without knowing to whom it belongs. However, they can > only create these short links by exploiting the hugely excessive > redundancy in "normal" URLs. By removing most of the redundancy, and > still coding it unambiguously, they get to the shorter links. The loss > of human intelligibility is almost unavoidable if you have a simple > piece of software do this.
not really. in the original linmk there was already a lot of unnecessary rubish: http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/3ddd586f0bab8886273fc0a87f99076f/Product/View/XH4247 contains a session key. remove it and: http://www.dse.co.nz/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/Product/View/XH4247 still works add some url rewriting and this could also work: http://www.dse.co.nz/Product/View/XH4247 still XH4247 is not ideal, but on the wholw a lot better than the original and alsmost as short as: http://makeashorterlink.com/?D25E21682 > I do not say it is impossible, but it might cost a lot. naa, all it takes is some thinking at the design stage. greetings, martin. -- interested in doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer working in europe csl-gmbh.net open-steam.org (www.archlab|(www|db).hb2).tuwien.ac.at unix bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at systemadministrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.(schon.org|root.at) Martin B�hr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/
