On that note, I thought there was a Ruby equivalent to the WWW::Shorten
Perl modules, but I can't find anything on the RAA at the moment.
Would you be opposed to a URL::Shorten::Enigo package? Is there an
underlying web service, or would you just use form submission? And
would you mind the potential traffic?
Regards,
Dan
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From: khaines [mailto:khaines@enigo.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 9:14 AM
To: ruby-talk ML
Subject: Re: [OT] Tiny URLs
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:10:34 +0900, James Britt wrote
> (Unless, of course, the redirection site were to be written in Ruby
> and run by people I know.)
I have a simple tiny url service running at http://enigo.com/shortlink
It shows you where you are being redirected to, so no surprises.
Kirk Haines
I would not be opposed at all. The algorithm that I use is very simple, and
the whole thing is just a tiny little IOWA app. Right now there is just a
form based interface, but it'd be no problem to provide a web service
interface of some sort, too.
And I'd only mind the potential traffic if it became crippling. 
Right now
I seem to average around 1k hits a month on it, so I just ignore it. If I
need to pay attention to it, I'll convert it to FCGI + IOWA and put a
different (i.e. simpler) layout around it and I should be able to stand quite
a bit of traffic.
Kirk Haines
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On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 01:19:54 +0900, Berger, Daniel wrote
On that note, I thought there was a Ruby equivalent to the WWW::Shorten
Perl modules, but I can't find anything on the RAA at the moment.
Would you be opposed to a URL::Shorten::Enigo package? Is there an
underlying web service, or would you just use form submission? And
would you mind the potential traffic?