Re: [dev] running a shortlink provider

From: Spenser Truex <truex_AT_equwal.com>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2023 15:24:45 -0300

On 23/05/26 07:52PM, syg wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just my two cents, but why not just store the link destination, even
> better, the HTML with the correct re-direction, in a file named
> according to the hash. You can then just serve it as-is. No lock
> problem. No database required. O(1) complexity.
>
> Of course this is only valid for a personal, non-public use since that
> strongly limits the number of links you can have.

If you edit your HTTP server instead you can send 300 requests and avoid
having a lot of unnecessary bandwidth usage.

>
> Also, this is trivially extensible to a pastebin.
>
> - syg
>

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