{{tag>category:"O4W" author:"Dave Harmacek" author:"Jared Bratu"}}

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==== URL shortener (O4W) ====
=== At 17 JUL 2012 08:28:16AM Dave Harmacek wrote: ===
 
 
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Does anyone use a URL shortener for their O4W pages? If so, which one?

or suggestions?  I send an email in plain text so that the user can see that

it is legitimate.



In an application my O4W sends an email in text with a url. The recipient is

to click that url to get access to a page created on-the-fly in O4W, so it is

rather long.  Some email clients (Outlook?) are wrapping the text url so that

the user gets an incomplete url, and thus no page.



Example:



http://www.somelongdomainname.com/online/oecgi3.exe/O4W_PORTAL?UID=TEST1O4W&OID=16265.71211&OPTID=1344.45460&DO=VIEW



the above was wrapped after "162"



Dave Harmacek

Harmacek Database Systems
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=== At 17 JUL 2012 01:44PM Jared Bratu wrote:  ===

<QUOTE>What about using URL re-writing? You could change the URL to 



http://www.somelongdomainname.com/g?U=TEST1O4W&O=16265.71211&O=1344.45460&D=VIEW



And have the URL rewrite module expand it to the proper URL. The result is still a little long but a lot shorter. 



You could also hash the arguments and have a redirection routine. For example the arguments:



/online/oecgi3.exe/O4W_PORTAL?UID=TEST1O4W&OID=16265.71211&OPTID=1344.45460&DO=VIEW



Could become something like:



/g?d2da0a61f9c319fc503ed326dea81c0b



Where d2da0a61f9c319fc503ed326dea81c0b is an MD5 of the URL arguments. 



The /g is a redirection script that looks up the hash to the corresponding URL.

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