The site I am working on wants to generate its own shortened URLs rather than rely on a third party like tinyurl or bit.ly. Obviously I could keep a running count new URLs as they are added to the site and use that to generate the short URLs. But I am trying to avoid that if possible since it seems like a lot of work just to make this o...
I am looking into the possibility of shortening / encrypting a url which will be from 150 to 250 characters in length to maximum 12 characters using an algorithm. Initially I am doubting it's possible but I wanted to leverage the great minds of StackOverflow :) the algorithm should be one that can be written in classic asp, sql, c#, vb...
Hi all, I'd like to implement bit.ly URL shortening service in my application and from biy.ly's API docs I read It uses JSON to short a link... Unfortunately, I never used JSON and I don't know where to start. Can anyone explain me how to implement bit.ly URL shortening service in my application? Thanks, Matteo ...
Hi, I'm looking for the equivalent of a URL shortening service such as http://bit.ly/ for an internal deployment in our organisation. Anyone know of any open source projects (especially Java ones) or commercial products which I can install internally rather than using an external service? Thanks! ...