welll, that's not quite what I meant. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > nope, I don't. Oh well. Thanks. > > :-)~MIKE~(-: > > > On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 1:38 PM, Matt Graham wrote: > >> On 2014-05-07 12:44, Michael Havens wrote: >> >>> How do I I condense long urls ? You know, the 'click here' where the >>> 'here' is a link to your address. >>> >> >> If you meant "I want to link to http://www.giantitp.com/ >> forums/showthread.php?t=59834 (silly post about the Beige Dragon) but >> the giantitp link is a whole lot to type. I'd rather use something like >> http://crow202.org/22 ," then you would use a URL shortener. There are >> a bunch of them. bit.ly and goo.gl are popular IIRC. These things >> usually end up giving you " http://goo.gl/654321 ", and if you go there, >> the server there looks up 654321 in a huge table and gives you a 301 >> redirect to http://example.com/a/really/huge/long/location/ . >> >> I wrote my own because it was a fairly easy thing to do, and all the >> extant publicly-usable URL shorteners almost certainly use tracking cookies >> and/or piles of JS garbage. You probably don't have a webhost to put a URL >> shortener on though. >> >> -- >> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress >> There is no Darkness in Eternity >> But only Light too dim for us to see. >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > >