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Solid Hacks
Chapter 1 - Static Pages
Hosting a Web Page On Your Pod
Hosting a One Page Game
URL Shortening
Creating a Realtime Markdown Editor
Saving a Markdown Document to Your Pod
Hosting Snippets
Chapter 2 - Working With Pods
Solid from the Console
Solid from the Command Line
Creating Group URIs
Hosting a pod on your own domain with CNAME
Interacting With Crawlers
Logging in with a Public Key
Chapter 3 - Working With Panes
Creating a Personal Diary
Creating a Slideshow
Creating an Audio playlist
Create a Presentation From Text
Chapter 4 - Integrations
Integrating Solid with Mastodon
Integrating with IPFS
Integrating Solid with Facebook
Integrating with Amazon S3
Integrating With Jitsi
Appendices
Appendix A : Solid Resources
Appendix B : Solid Communities
Appendix C : Utilities
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URL Shortening

Introduction

This hack enables you to use your solid pod as a URL shortener. There are many reasons you might do this in normal life, however in Solid it becomes even better. This is because many client side apps derive their content from the query string. This can be up to 100k big so is impractical to share.

The Hack

    1.
    Open source tab
    2.
    Create a new file xxx.html in a given directory
    3.
    Add the code
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<script>location.href="<URL>"</script>
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Now when you click on that file it will take you to the longer URL. And we're done!
Tip 1 The idea behind short urls is that urls should be as short as possible. So when thinking about a place to put your short urls, we could standardize around a directory with as few characters as possible. Possible places to put this would be
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POD_ROOT/public/u/
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POD_ROOT/u/
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Perhaps u for URL shortener?
Tip 2 The shortener can also double as a URL redirector. This has lots of unexpected reuse, as we shall see later!

See Also

Wikipedia article : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening​
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Introduction
The Hack
See Also