On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:56:20AM +0200, NSK wrote:
On Wednesday 02 February 2005 08:24, DIG wrote:
The short URL itself could be something like this:
The code that does this job exists and it is GPL, so it can be incorporated in MW easily: The code lies in the Drupal CMS where every node can be accessed via a number/code and optionally a full name (full URL).
I am not familiar with drupal. What is the mechanism they use for automatically generate shorten URLs and to keep them consistent in time (we need to make sure that these short URL will live long enough, virtually forever)?
It could be some kind of hash of article's title. This way it will be reasonably unique, and it can be kept in the database. Then, when the short URL is requested, the corresponding value substitutes the shorten URL.
Best regards,