Expand Url solutions

[Andrea Scarpino]

On Thursday, 25 August 2016 15:45:26 CEST Mehrdad Momeny wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> So, apparently the longurl.org service is broken and the short urls aren't
> being expanded in Choqok any longer. I'm not sure how long it has been like
> this, but it's better to fix it.
> 
> There're two options that comes to my mind:
> 1. Fall back to the old simple untiny plugin which wasn't using any online
> service, but just tried the short url to see where it goes. It used to work
> for most of the cases, with no dependency on external services.
> 2. Try and find a replacement service for longurl.org.

Too bad longurl died.
I would like to restore untiny and drop longurl at this point.

I ported untiny to KDE Frameworks, but didn't enable it yet. Free do to that 
(and disable longurl).

untiny already does a check about t.co links but I don't know why.

Cheers

-- 
Andrea