in reply to Shorten Url/Link Param

There are a variety of ways to accomplish this. The most straight-forward way is to run some free/open source URL shortener elsewhere on your server, and have your application use its API to generate short links.
Another way is to make a table in your database mapping some kind of ID (could be a SHA-1 of the original URL or state, or some kind of unique ID, or ...) to the URL or application state. When loaded, load that state and continue from there.

-Thomas
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Re^2: Shorten Url/Link Param
by hankcoder (Scribe) on Dec 05, 2017 at 08:24 UTC

    Thanks for reply Thomas. So the actual shorten url method is just an unique ID pointing to the long Url/string that being associated to? If this is the case, then I have misunderstood the whole "shortening" method wrongly. I thought it is some kind of encoding and decoding method.

    Could you further clarify on this? Generating a unique random short string and associating it to my long url/string is pretty much straight forward.

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      Yes, this is a translation process not encode/decode. It is not possible to compress (encode) a long URL into a much shorter one and have enough information to recreate the long URL from only the very short URL. There needs to be a translation hash table. For reference see Wiki Tiny Url.
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