Comments on Thought Bin: Short URLs are so 2008. Long URLs for the win!

Just uploaded a new version with much, much better...

2009-04-29T16:00:00.000-07:00

Just uploaded a new version with much, much better encoding detection. Almost all of my previously failing test cases are now working.

Thanks for the suggestions! @Arachnid: Good point...

2009-04-28T15:38:00.000-07:00

Thanks for the suggestions!

@Arachnid: Good point! Added a "short long" URL which is limited to 70ch.

@blog: Nice idea, but I prefer to avoid artificial IDs.

@barryhunter: Hm, I did try it Chrome I believe. I removed the text/plain output completely now. Let me know if you're still having problems.

Cheers!

This is good. But at least in Chrome the output pa...

2009-04-02T05:30:00.000-07:00

This is good. But at least in Chrome the output page is in plain text. From teh API page it appears you appear to decide which to return. Perhaps the text/plain is higher priority than text/html on Chrome?

One other suggestion: If you prepend a unique iden...

2009-04-02T02:53:00.000-07:00

One other suggestion: If you prepend a unique identifier to the URL, you could process redirects even if the longer URL was truncated.

Very nice. I've been pondering something like this...

2009-04-02T02:51:00.000-07:00

Very nice. I've been pondering something like this for a while, but not only did you get in first, but you made something better.

If I may suggest: There really needs to be a cap on URL length you output. The first example is 87 characters, which is going to be wrapped in all sorts of environments, such as text-based email and IRC. Somewhere around 70 characters seems like a sensible limit.