Re: TinyUrlService for Sakai

[Ian Boston]

Steve,
A question.

Does this augment or replace the one that Antranig did last summer. I  
think it went into contrib, we needed it for production ?

Ian
On 13 Feb 2009, at 11:56, Steve Swinsburg wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> For those of you who don't follow the PlanetSakai blogs, I've just  
> checked into contrib a TinyUrlService that Aaron and I have worked  
> on. Given any URL in Sakai you can get a tiny URL for it to send out  
> in emails or just have as a nice link to a page or tool. It maps to  
> the /tiny/ URL space and is as simple as making one call in your  
> tool's code:
>
> String tinyUrl = tinyUrlService.generateTinyUrl(someUrl);
>
> This returns a URL like:
> http://some.sakai.server/tiny/acvftd
> which when followed will redirect to the original URL just as you  
> would expect.
>
> It's available here:
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/tinyurl/
>
>
> Questions and comments welcome.
>
>
> cheers,
> Steve
>
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[Steve Swinsburg-2]

Hi Ian,

No idea on specifics but if it's the one Aaron knows about then it  
does the same thing.


cheers,
Steve

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Steve Swinsburg
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On 15 Feb 2009, at 20:36, Ian Boston wrote:

> Steve,
> A question.
>
> Does this augment or replace the one that Antranig did last summer.  
> I think it went into contrib, we needed it for production ?
>
> Ian
> On 13 Feb 2009, at 11:56, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> For those of you who don't follow the PlanetSakai blogs, I've just  
>> checked into contrib a TinyUrlService that Aaron and I have worked  
>> on. Given any URL in Sakai you can get a tiny URL for it to send  
>> out in emails or just have as a nice link to a page or tool. It  
>> maps to the /tiny/ URL space and is as simple as making one call in  
>> your tool's code:
>>
>> String tinyUrl = tinyUrlService.generateTinyUrl(someUrl);
>>
>> This returns a URL like:
>> http://some.sakai.server/tiny/acvftd
>> which when followed will redirect to the original URL just as you  
>> would expect.
>>
>> It's available here:
>> https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/tinyurl/
>>
>>
>> Questions and comments welcome.
>>
>>
>> cheers,
>> Steve
>>
>> ---
>> Steve Swinsburg
>> Portal Systems Developer
>> Centre for e-Science
>> Lancaster University
>> Lancaster
>> LA1 4YT
>>
>> email: s.swinsburg@...
>> phone: [phone]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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