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Sean Murphy replied on April 29, 2009 17:31 to the question "Reverse LongURL ????" in Statiksoft, LLC:

Not that I know of.

Sean Murphy replied on April 29, 2009 16:53 to the idea "Allow sending multiple urls to API" in Statiksoft, LLC:

That's a good idea, but I'll still have to think about it. If I do end up doing it it probably wont be for a little while. There are a number of other things on my to-do list that take priority.

Sean Murphy set one of Sean Murphy's replies as an official response to "Add support for tcrn.ch" in Statiksoft, LLC

Sean Murphy replied on April 29, 2009 16:48 to the idea "Add support for tcrn.ch" in Statiksoft, LLC:

Done.

Sean Murphy replied on April 29, 2009 16:05 to the problem "Problem with short url that leads to feedproxy.google.com" in Statiksoft, LLC:

That settles it. I'll let you know when I have the change in place.

BTW, I'm planning to add an easier way for people to suggest new services for the known services list.

Sean Murphy replied on April 29, 2009 16:00 to the idea "Allow sending multiple urls to API" in Statiksoft, LLC:

Thinking about this more, I'm inclined not to implement it.

Because of the very nature of my service (relying on calls to external websites and APIs), it is possible for a request to take up to 30 seconds to process before timing out, not because my servers are slow, but because a third-party server is slow. That is when expanding only one URL.

I fear that if I allow expanding more than one URL per request it could easily lead to more timeouts and a very bad user experience.

Perhaps I could talk to the guy at LongURLPlease and see what his experience has been.

Sean Murphy replied on April 29, 2009 15:49 to the problem "Problem with short url that leads to feedproxy.google.com" in Statiksoft, LLC:

Yes, LongURL is recursive. The way it works now, is it checks if the "long URL" it's returning is in the list of known shortening services. If it is, it will expand it again.

The reason you're getting a bad result is because feedproxy.google.com isn't in the list of shortening services.

I originally mode it work this way to prevent, for example, a link to a Facebook message from returning the URL to the login page. I'm starting to think though, that it may be better to just follow all redirects, regardless of whether they're in the known services list or not.

Any thoughts?

Sean Murphy set one of Sean Murphy's replies as an official response to "I'd love to see support for ow.ly." in Statiksoft, LLC

Sean Murphy replied on April 29, 2009 15:40 to the idea "I'd love to see support for ow.ly." in Statiksoft, LLC:

Ah, yes. I will be adding support for shortening services that require an API to get the long URL shortly. Thank you for bringing this up. I hadn't realized that ow.ly used frames.

Sean Murphy set one of Sean Murphy's replies as an official response to "500 error returned when trying to lengthen some urls" in Statiksoft, LLC

Sean Murphy replied on April 22, 2009 02:28 to the problem "500 error returned when trying to lengthen some urls" in Statiksoft, LLC:

Okay, should be fixed now. Thanks again for reporting the bug.

Sean Murphy replied on April 22, 2009 01:20 to the idea "Allow sending multiple urls to API" in Statiksoft, LLC:

I had thought about adding support for this in the past. I have plans for a version 2 of the API, so thanks for bringing it up again. I'll see what I can do. ;-)

Sean Murphy replied on April 22, 2009 01:16 to the problem "500 error returned when trying to lengthen some urls" in Statiksoft, LLC:

Thanks for reporting this. I'm looking into it and will let you know when it's fixed.

Sean Murphy set one of Sean Murphy's replies as an official response to "List of libraries which can talk to longurl.org" in Statiksoft, LLC

Sean Murphy replied on February 19, 2009 17:46 to the idea "List of libraries which can talk to longurl.org" in Statiksoft, LLC:

Robin, this is done. You can see the page here: http://longurl.org/in-the-wild

Sean Murphy set one of Sean Murphy's replies as an official response to "Yet another URL shortening service (YAUSS)" in Statiksoft, LLC

Sean Murphy replied on February 19, 2009 16:53 to the problem "Yet another URL shortening service (YAUSS)" in Statiksoft, LLC:

Thanks, I've added it to the list.

Sean Murphy set one of Sean Murphy's replies as an official response to "http://ff.im/-QcDP becomes friendfeed.com/-QcDP, but that ain't right." in Statiksoft, LLC

Sean Murphy replied on February 19, 2009 16:52 to the problem "http://ff.im/-QcDP becomes friendfeed.com/-QcDP, but that ain't right." in Statiksoft, LLC:

This has been fixed.

Sean Murphy replied on February 19, 2009 16:48 to the idea "List of libraries which can talk to longurl.org" in Statiksoft, LLC:

Hi greenrd. Thanks for sharing your library. I was recently told about someone who write a ruby gem for LongURL also.

I'd like to set up a page that list the available libraries for LongURL along with known sites/apps that use it.