I'm going through our site analytics, and have a load of t.co URLs which were referrers to a promotion we were doing. I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to reverse those back to the origina...

I'm currently using MD5 hashes but I would like to find something that will create a shorter hash that uses just [a-z][A-Z][0-9]. It only needs to be around 5-10 characters long. Is there something...

How can I make unique URL in Python a la https://i.stack.imgur.com/turb6.jpg or http://tumblr.com/xzh3bi25y When using uuid from python I get a very large one. I want something shorter for URLs.

How do services like TinyURL or Metamark work? Do they simply associate the tiny URL key with a [virtual?] web page which merely provide an "HTTP redirect" to the original URL? or is there more "ma...

If there is a long url, I want to generate a short URL like those in Twitter. Is there some way to implement this in Ruby?

When creating a short URL service for URLs on the same domain, should we be using a 302 redirect? Full URL structure: example.com/gig/{id}/gig-full-name-slug Short URL structure: example.com/g/{ba...

file_get_contents() doesn't read data for short urls Example: http://wp.me/pbZy8-1WM, http://bit.ly/d00E2C Please help me in handle this. OR Is there any CURL function to handle above links?

After using sites like JSFiddle I noticed that they auto generate a random and unique URL made up of various upper and lower case characters. We could benefit from this for our booking pages. How...

My client has database of over 400,000 customers. Each customer is assigned a GUID. He wants me to select all the records, create a dynamic "short URL" which includes this GUID as a parameter. Then...

I have a web application project which is deployed in tomcat 6. I can access my application using the url: http://localhost:8082/MyApplication I also wan't to be able to access this application ...

I have Url as: localhost/ab/directory.php?id=200 id=200 is jenny id member how to change it to localhost/ab/jenny is possible? Thanks

I'm building a new web app that has a requirement to generate an internal short URL to be used in the future for users to easily get back to a specific page which has a very long URL. My initial th...

I am trying to understand crc32 to generate the unique url for web page. If we use the crc32, what is the maximum number of urls can be used so that we can avoid duplicates? What could be the app...