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  • From: Greg Cox <glcox AT pobox.com>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] solving URLs that wrap then break
  • Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2003 12:15:54 -0500 (EST)

> http://tinyurl.com/
>
> A free redirection service that takes long database driven URLs or URLs of
> British websites and returns a shorter URL.

For courtesy, as a general rule, please include the real URL when you use
tinyurl. tinyurl doesn't have a pretty way[1] of reverse-mapping their URLs
to real ones, short of plugging it in and hoping you don't get shunted off
to 47 popups woth of lolitapr0n in the middle of the work day.


[1] Not counting
lynx -head -mime_header $@ | grep ^Location: | cut -d' ' -f2





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