Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services (Freedom to Tinker)
Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services (Freedom to Tinker)
Posted Apr 26, 2016 12:50 UTC (Tue) by itvirta (guest, #49997)In reply to: Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services (Freedom to Tinker) by robbe
Parent article: Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services (Freedom to Tinker)
Including the title in the URL is actually _useful_ too, if you happen to only have the URLs saved.
It's rather annoying to pick the correct one amongst many that differ only by an opaque number.
It's rather annoying to pick the correct one amongst many that differ only by an opaque number.
Posted Apr 26, 2016 18:04 UTC (Tue)
by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
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Gone In Six Characters: Short URLs Considered Harmful for Cloud Services (Freedom to Tinker)
The best patterns I've seen are "https://host/path/id/slug" where the slug doesn't matter (so if the link gets word-wrapped or truncated, it still resolves properly), but is still useful when searching history or whatever. But that doesn't really work for non-static websites.