http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/10/why-im-suspicious-of-web-tools/ Your technology pain-relief experts. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:37:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/10/why-im-suspicious-of-web-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-15580 All Your URL are Belong to Us | Rob Paller Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:06:46 +0000 http://www.brentozar.com/?p=5540#comment-15580 [...] user from the shortened URL to the target URL, also known as linkrot.  Brent Ozar wrote about his suspicions of using free web services to shorten URLs for this very reason. With Google the chance that your [...] [...] user from the shortened URL to the target URL, also known as linkrot.  Brent Ozar wrote about his suspicions of using free web services to shorten URLs for this very reason. With Google the chance that your [...]

]]> http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/10/why-im-suspicious-of-web-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-12223 Weekly Link Post 113 « Rhonda Tipton’s WebLog Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:42:49 +0000 http://www.brentozar.com/?p=5540#comment-12223 [...] Why I’m Suspicious of Free Web Tools – Brent Ozar provides a great point here. [...] [...] Why I’m Suspicious of Free Web Tools – Brent Ozar provides a great point here. [...]

]]> http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/10/why-im-suspicious-of-web-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-12164 Cade Roux Sat, 03 Oct 2009 03:00:13 +0000 http://www.brentozar.com/?p=5540#comment-12164 In fact, you could use the technique here (https://dgl.cx/wikipedia-dns) to do URL shortening over DNS. In fact, you could use the technique here (https://dgl.cx/wikipedia-dns) to do URL shortening over DNS.

]]> http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2009/10/why-im-suspicious-of-web-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-12163 Cade Roux Sat, 03 Oct 2009 02:59:01 +0000 http://www.brentozar.com/?p=5540#comment-12163 URL shortening needs to be distributed and cached like DNS. They never change, so you don't have any TTL or redirection issues, and it should be easy to provide archiving of the links. If every site provided their own shortening (although obviously their domain name will not be as short as tr.im), then if the site is up, the shortened versions are up. URL shortening needs to be distributed and cached like DNS. They never change, so you don’t have any TTL or redirection issues, and it should be easy to provide archiving of the links. If every site provided their own shortening (although obviously their domain name will not be as short as tr.im), then if the site is up, the shortened versions are up.

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