Cemete.ch's own URL shortener

elfprince13 · Posted: 15 May 2011 04:31:43 pm Post subject:

Don't forget to add the error pages
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KermMartian · Posted: 15 May 2011 04:43:55 pm Post subject:

Elfprince, thanks. Smile

Swivel/comicIDIOT, would you guys mind tabulating what I'm missing, so I can implement them now?
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comicIDIOT · Posted: 15 May 2011 04:45:42 pm Post subject:

I'll let swivel make the post, then I'll just edit his to include what I'm thinking, to avoid having to sort through two posts (possibly separated by posts).
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TheStorm · NOU! Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 2375

Do we have an API for creating the random ones yet? That way I could move DCS over from using tinyurl to our new cemete.ch shortener.
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KermMartian · Posted: 15 May 2011 04:57:16 pm Post subject:

Well, here's what's done:
:: http://cemete.ch/tNNN: topic
:: http://cemete.ch/pNNN: post
:: http://cemete.ch/fNNN: forum category
:: http://cemete.ch/nNNN: news article
:: http://cemete.ch: homepage

What's not done:
:: http://cemete.ch/dcs/BLAH: Shortcut to http://dcs.cemetech.net/index.php?title=BLAH
:: http://cemete.ch/uNNNN: user number NNNN's profile
:: http://cemete.ch/u/NAME: user named NAME's profile
:: http://cemete.ch/prNNNN: project NNNN

Others?
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comicIDIOT · Posted: 15 May 2011 05:00:26 pm Post subject:

Nothing on my end. Once the API is implemented, can we have variables that replace the

url's? I believe that was already suggested.
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KermMartian · Posted: 15 May 2011 05:01:20 pm Post subject:

TheStorm · NOU! Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 2375

OK well I can see about getting the dcs wiki to use the new sortened urls once that is implemented but I had thought we wanted to implement just a generic URL shortener for other url's? Or is that no longer the plan?
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Deep Thought · Posted: 15 May 2011 05:11:29 pm Post subject:

How about file downloads?
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KermMartian · Posted: 15 May 2011 05:13:35 pm Post subject:

elfprince13 · Posted: 15 May 2011 08:17:12 pm Post subject:

swivelgames · Posted: 16 May 2011 01:08:59 am Post subject:

Oh that's a good idea, elfprince13 Razz

Also, uhm, Kerm...
Typing in something like cemete.ch/useless/url will redirect to *.php?mode=viewprofile&u=seless/url

I assume there are no URLs starting with u, but shouldn't it look for u\/(.+) instead of u(.+)? (or whatever it is you have written in there, but you get the point Razz

)

Also, as mentioned previously by comicIDIOT, and recently by myself in SAX, SAX is currently generating TinyURLs for cemete.ch URLs. Shouldn't it only generate TinyURLs for non-cemete.ch URLs?

comicIDIOT · Posted: 16 May 2011 01:10:26 am Post subject:

swivelgames · Posted: 16 May 2011 01:13:50 am Post subject:

KermMartian · Posted: 16 May 2011 01:26:23 am Post subject:

(Reposted from front page news)

Due to the ingenuity and quick thinking of longtime Cemetech member Swivelgames, Cemetech now has its very own URL shortener, Cemete.ch. Thanks to the lucky coincidence of Switzerland's .ch domain, we were able to grab this domain last week, and thanks to Swivelgames' generosity, we were able to grab it quickly. As detailed in the attached topic, members and staff quickly suggested a variety of helpful URL shortcuts that the cemete.ch domain could facilitate; the ones implemented thus far:

:: cemete.ch - The Cemetech homepage, http://www.cemetech.net.
:: cemete.ch/t6244 - Redirect URLs with /tNNN to the relevant Cemetech forum topic numbered NNN.
:: cemete.ch/p150521 - Redirect URLs with /pNNN to the relevant Cemetech post numbered NNN.
:: cemete.ch/f9 - Redirect URLs with /fNN to the Cemetech forum category numbered NN.
:: cemete.ch/u2 - Redirect URLs with /uUSERID to the Cemetech profile page of the user with that ID, and /uUSERNAME to the profile page of the user with that username.
:: cemete.ch/pr33 - Redirect URLS with /prNN to the project page containing that Cemetech project, ID number NN.
:: cemete.ch/dcs/SDK - Anything ending /dcs/* gets redirected to the relevant Doors CS wiki page.
:: cemete.ch/n457 - URLs of the form /nNNN redirect to the news article numbered NNN.
:: Any other cemete.ch/* URL is redirected to http://www.cemetech.net/*. Several users are currently lobbying for a Cemetech-specific tinyurl-like service to redirect to any url using the domain.

I hope that you enjoy this new service, report any bugs you see as it is rolled out to SAX, saxjax, the @cemetech Twitter feed, and other areas of Cemetech, and suggest any new features that occur to you!
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KermMartian · Posted: 16 May 2011 12:53:57 pm Post subject:

*bump* I'm not sure if anyone noticed that front-page news article. Very Happy

Anyway, to answer all of the unanswered questions in this topic:

:: dcs.cemete.ch: I don't think I can add subdomains to add-on domains...? Edit: WHOA, I actually can! Awesome!
:: Regarding the /uNNNN, I'm not too worried about potential URLs starting with u.
:: About the general URL redirection, I don't know if I feel like the database overhead of remembering all those URLs. Sad

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comicIDIOT · Posted: 16 May 2011 01:38:28 pm Post subject:

Just remember them for seven days or so. They'd be used almost strictly by saxjax, so keeping them for infinity would be pointless.
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elfprince13 · Posted: 16 May 2011 01:59:07 pm Post subject:

Woot, re: dcs.cemete.ch. Also, why on earth is Switzerland .ch?