Creating Short URL's
I've recently been involved in a project whereby we'll convert a long URL into a short URL. This is by no means a new service - some sites have been doing this for ages.
What we did this time round is get a really, really short url - something memorable too… So we bought url.co.uk.
We decided that we'd start off by offering something 'new' as well - where possible, we'll check the destination URL against a frequently updated database of known phishing sites. We don't want to send you and your visitors to a malicious site that looks like Paypal, but isn't Paypal!
4 comments September 28th, 2007