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We can? wouldn't they need to be percent-encoded like %2B?

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nimda, those are the exceptions. There are also parenthesis too, but we know they cause problems here because MSDN uses them.

Actually it looks like only $-_.+ are allowed on these forums, but that's because of the phpBB software, not link standards.


http://example.org/foo$-_.+bar

http://example.org/fa-_.+!*il

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library ... hz(v=vs.71).aspx

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Interestingly enough, the MSDN links just fine

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@Frankie: I replaced the code at shorten.ahk4.me with your most recent version from Github.

I think we should allow only the special characters - (minus) and _ (underscore), for readability's sake.

I'll try to create the code asap.

Btw, to Frankie specifically, if you need access to my server to test (and a mysql db), please PM me.

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In any case, v.gd is even shorter for custom URLs at the moment, and less-known therefore more urls are free (such as http://v.gd/gdip_)

@nimda: Sure, there are a lot of (and more) shorter short-url services around, but do we really want to use those?

I think something like f.ahk4.me/gdip is short enough, or isn't it?

I'd much rather link to f.ahk4.me/GDI I'm just using v.gd as an alternative until it's implemented.

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dao has me on a testing domain, but it's up and running. For now the entries have to be entered manually (it takes like 5 seconds for each) but once I know the specs for it we can make a creation page.

Here's an example, just for you nimda! http://test.ahk4.me/gdi

Where should the main URL redirect to? That would be http://test.ahk4.me or in the future http://f.ahk4.me. Currently they just die because of the super basic error checking to prevent excessive database access. (Must be 3 or more characters of alpha-numeric-underscore characters. As mentioned above more can be added. Because of how we handle it, the typically reserved characters can also be used, e.g., &, =, +.

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GET YOUR ALIAS URLS!! (beta)

It looks like we're all set up. PM me for the secret code.

I'm just waiting for the move to the real domain (f.ahk4.me).

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Just out of curiosity why did you choose ahk4.me and not ahk.me?

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@polyethene: Domains with 3 or less characters are auctioned off (expensive), domains with 4 characters or more are not, and so are relatively cheap (normal price for direct registration). I tried some combinations, and came up with this one.

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I recently bought ahk.me for under $8, it was unregistered and available. I had tried to purchase a.hk but the .hk authority only permits 2-63 characters. Finally, it seems like nearly every 2 letter combination for domain names has already been taken - apart for an .rs domain which I have bought for other purposes.

After my purchase, and having switched to ahk.me short URLs for the helper bot in our IRC channel I was informed of this thread.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that most of the ideas I had were ones you were already using for ahk4.me, which include the following aliases:

• ahk.me: bit.ly redirection, e.g. http://ahk.me/sqTsfk
• c.ahk.me: documentation, e.g. http://c.ahk.me/FormatTime
• u.ahk.me: user spaces, e.g. http://u.ahk.me/polyethene
• l.ahk.me: AutoHotkey_L site, e.g. http://l.ahk.me/docs/Objects.htm
• p.ahk.me: pastebin, e.g. http://p.ahk.me/15d7c38
• ip.ahk.me: IP address service (not yet done)

I've also signed up for Windows Live Admin which is a service similar to Google Apps but for Hotmail/Windows Live accounts. This enables anybody to register their own free @ahk.me account for emails, MSN (Windows Live Messenger) and other Microsoft services.

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First posting rewritten and edited.

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@polyethene: Sorry it took so long to reply, I was busy editing the first posting, so I didn't see yours.

Interesting. I have no clue why I couldn't get ahk.me, maybe because you had already taken it?

I like what you are offering. Maybe we can coordinate?

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I only registered ahk.me a few days ago but a quick search on the whois historical records shows it was in use during August this year, so perhaps just good timing on my part.

We can definitely coordinate. I have decided not to allow public use of ahk.me short URL creation since you already provide it for ahk4.me, but had I not seen this I would have created a wrapper service over the bit.ly API so the keys would need not be exposed. This would also enable restrictions i.e. silently switching to j.mp (or other) domains for non-AutoHotkey related links.

However, my only real intention of creating ahk.net was to have our IRC bot reference short URLs since message lengths are limited.

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