[Owncloud] URL shortening

[Michael Grosser]

I actually think it's better to have that as a separate app. The
shorty app is quite alright and has a lot of features someone with a
short link wants.
It's not only about the link size, but also tracking, reassigning
shortened urls etc.
Shorty is already providing that, I think the thing to do is just
enabling a shorten with shorty option within sharing, not sure if the
shorty app can do that with the new sharing api, I'm not that code
aware with the sharing api...

Cheers Michael

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Victor Dubiniuk
<victor.dubiniuk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
> ---
> 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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