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John H - Oct 27, 2002 9:29:22 pm PST #968 of 10000

What's the current thinking on the long-URL problem? I posted about it ages ago, and ita, did I email you some code?

My thoughts on possible ways to handle long URLs in posts were, if I recall correctly:

    • change them to
    [too-long URL removed]
  1. change them to http://domainname/[rest of too-long URL removed]
  2. change them to http://domainname/[...]/porn.htm
that last one being really "retain some of the URL if we can to provide a bit of context", but not really thought out.

Jon B. - Oct 27, 2002 10:51:46 pm PST #969 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

I like the third idea. But, then, I don't have to code it.

§ ita § - Oct 27, 2002 10:58:24 pm PST #970 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I don't think the last one is a safe solution, since querystrings can make that still a very long adjusted URL.

Burrell - Oct 27, 2002 11:48:01 pm PST #971 of 10000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!

I just had my first weird bug-that-can-only-be-discovered-through-random-user-behavior. I used the quick-edit spoiler font, and then started the next line with an arrow, using a caret to create the point of the arrow. All the text following the caret got eaten.

John H - Oct 27, 2002 11:54:51 pm PST #972 of 10000

I don't think the last one is a safe solution, since querystrings can make that still a very long adjusted URL.

I think the formula in my head is "remove all directory information after the domain name, and remove all query string stuff after the name of the document, if there is any"

so

www.somewhere.com/blah/blah/blah/blah/blah/porn.htm

becomes

www.somewhere.com/[...]/porn.htm

and

www.somewhere.com/blah/blah/login.php?x=123456&y=123456&z=123456

becomes

www.somewhere.com/[...]/login.php

or something like that.

It's the query strings that are normally the problem, not the dirs, right?

esse - Oct 28, 2002 12:01:46 am PST #973 of 10000
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!

Starting with John H.'s post 501 in Buffistatech, everything is aligned with the bullets he made. Which means the page alignment is off.

Angus G - Oct 28, 2002 5:21:15 am PST #974 of 10000
Roguish Laird

I like the third option, because I like if possible to know what file type is being linked to, so that I don't click on a 10MB .exe file by mistake. (Not that any Buffista would post such a thing without warning, but we have to plan for contingencies yada yada yada.)

Jon B. - Oct 28, 2002 5:50:28 am PST #975 of 10000
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

Starting with John H.'s post 501 in Buffistatech, everything is aligned with the bullets he made. Which means the page alignment is off.

Fixed.

I just had my first weird bug-that-can-only-be-discovered-through-random-user-behavior.

Where was this?

§ ita § - Oct 28, 2002 8:02:33 am PST #976 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

John, as long as you regexp it, it's all good.

Allyson - Oct 28, 2002 11:04:52 am PST #977 of 10000
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

I think i broke the Firefly thread

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