4 Oct
2005
4 Oct
'05
8:14 a.m.
Rumor has it that Vintage Computer Festival may have mentioned these words:
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Gil Carrick wrote:
ePay's URLs haven't been 'small' for quite a while, but they were always
pretty easy to shrink to oneliners... did it all the time.
For whatever it's worth, when citing eBay
auctions all that is necessary is
the item number. In this case, 8701459056. It is very easy to find on any
page and cut-n-paste into an email. A search for that number will find it
quickly. Full URLs always get wrapped in an inconvenient place.
Indeed. Now I wish someone would explain why eBay went from a nice, clean
and SANE URL to the big catastrophe they now make you link to. >
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Nimbus-Domesday-Video-Book_W0QQitemZ8701
> 459056QQcategoryZ4193QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Which I shrunk to:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/_W0QQitemZ8701459056
and it worked just fine. Just whack everything between the domain and the
underscore, and everything after the listing #. [1] Geepers, that ain't
rocket surgery... ;^>
[1] Which is pretty much what I did with the old URLs too, but they used to
be much longer than that.
Laterz,
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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