[Owncloud] URL shortening

[Victor Dubiniuk]

Hi,

>From my POV, shortening is possible with a dedicated controller, a simple
DB table containing the source | destination fields, and (optionally)
mod_rewrite rule for apache / dedicated location for nginx.
As soon as portability restrictions make it impossible to use DB constrains
this table should be revised by cron.

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Victor


On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 1:16 PM, Jan-Christoph Borchardt <
hey at jancborchardt.net> wrote:

> It seems we veered off from the original problem. Shorty is an app for
> shortening external links – essentially it’s tinyurl inside your
> ownCloud.
>
> The problem Morten has is different though – ownCloud’s own share
> links are too long with their massive tokens. This was also brought up
> again the other day, and in this issue:
> http://bugs.owncloud.org/thebuggenie/owncloud/issues/oc-1562 – we
> shouldn’t require people to use shorty or any app to get proper links.
>
> If people generate a public link there’s 2 big use-cases: private and
> public. For a private link it makes sense to have such a long token,
> for a public one it doesn’t really matter. And coincidentally, it’s
> also the public ones you want to share on Twitter or other networks
> where you might need a short link.
> Using an external service for that has several problems: external
> tracking, privacy breach (though voluntary), it can break at any time,
> …
>
> What about by default the address being long and tokenized, and then
> there’s a toggle in the address field with which you can shorten it?
> As discussed in
> http://bugs.owncloud.org/thebuggenie/owncloud/issues/oc-135, the
> address can get much shorter (as for CalDAV and CardDAV).
>
> If people need an external link shortener to be able to post their
> links somewhere, we need to improve. This is not an app opportunity
> but a much needed feature which just needs a tiny bit of interface
> (but a lot of backend code I assume).
>
>
> Thoughts?
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