On 29 March 2010 11:09, Jonathan Bennett <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 29/03/2010 10:52, Gregory wrote: > > I understand avoiding the ending character from being > > non-alphanumeric(not letters or numbers) would mean a serious rewrite of > > how the shortlinks are made/decoded. How much longer would short links > > be if all digits were alphanumeric only? > > It's also allowed behaviour. '-' is a valid URI character, so any user > agent that chops them off the end of a URI is broken. I realise that > doesn't help the people using them, but it would be better to fix the > problem in the correct place. > > If you have any particular powers over Google and Microsoft... :-) As mentioned, I can and do use a different URL shortener for now, but it is a UI element right there on the home page that will lead to people sending around broken links. That can't be good. If geohashes or some other system can be implemented - tinyurl, bit.ly etc. doesn't seem to use punctuation marks - that would be great. Best, Tom -- http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance
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