23 Jul
2004
23 Jul
'04
9:57 p.m.
Daryle Walker <darylew@hotmail.com> writes:
On 7/21/04 7:32 PM, "Darren Cook" <darren@dcook.org> wrote:
Tinyurl (and similar services) discard valuable information from the URL. I often use information in the URL itself to judge whether the topic being discussed is of interest to me.
I agree. I'd rather see long URLs so I have an idea of where it will take me.
I hate the lack of context too. Also, the Tiny-URL may hide an unknown number of web-commission re-directs. (Doesn't one of these services proclaim that reason as why you can't look up their short-hand URLs in advance?)
You can always perform the lookup with an HTTP client that merely prints, but does not follow, redirect responses. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard