[ckan-discuss] Short-link tool

Tue Dec 20 12:18:18 GMT 2011

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 12:23 PM, Ross Jones <ross.jones at okfn.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I think I've come across the need for a shortlink tool (like bit.ly or
> tinyurl - http://trac.ckan.org/ticket/1549 ), and rather than partially
> implement it somewhere I thought it would be a fairly useful tool generally.
>  I have a specific use-case where CKAN can create a shortlink and then at a
> later time update the target URI, and generating some analytics from users
> following the shortlinks - but thought it might be sensible to see if anyone
> else has any ideas/thoughts to contribute?

Just a +1 that this would probably be really useful. And if it were
reusable in other places - so much the better!

Lucy

> One thing I am not clear on, is whether it should be a core component, an
> extension or a self-hosted tool? We could reuse the cache url on the
> resources but I wonder whether anyone might find this useful as a general
> purpose tool.
>
> Any thoughts/ideas gratefully received.
>
> Ross.
>
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