please chop urls?

Posted Aug 20, 2003 8:53 UTC (Wed) by Duncan (guest, #6647) [Link]

Further, the url spreading the page like that was longer than it needed to be.
Several sections of the query could be cut out of it, with the result being the same
desired page. Here's the shortest version I came up with.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1573980137/ref=lib_rd_zi_3/103-1475748-6530226?vi=reader&img=3&jumbo=1

One can omit the jumbo=1 as well, but then one gets an image to small to easily
read.

Of course, that's still rather long, and using a tinyurl link or using html and an
appropriate tag would be better, as the OP suggested. I wouldn't have posted it
here except that the damage is already done, with the even longer original URL
making the page even wider.