Huge URL

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Someone, taking a page from Gilby, has created the website, HugeURL. It will take a URL of manageable length and convert to something unwieldy. Here, for example, is what it does to http://www.unicyclist.com :

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Re: Huge URL

Did you see it? - “ad - lash, fix, weld, sell, win!”
I’m not sure what it means, but if they have to resort to subliminal advertising, I’m not going to buy whatever wonderful and useful product they are selling (I hope).

Also, these things tend to come in threes: Good idea (tinyurl), parody (hugeurl), and bandwagon. I wonder how long before the bandwagon brings us mediumurl.

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Blah
http://hugeurl.com/?ZjJmOTFhOThmNjQ2OTMzNjQ1NzZkMTBjNDY1OTZiYWYmMTMmVm0wd2QyUXlVWGxWV0d4WFlUSm9WMVl3Wkc5V1ZsbDNXa2M1YWxK
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It doesnt seem to atually work, in these forums at least.

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The forum software doesn’t convert all of the character string into the url that it links to. But it does work if you copy all of the url text into e.g. notepad, then delete the line breaks so that it concatenates into one big line (even if it wraps), then select and copy the whole thing and paste it into IE’s addresss bar.

Klaas Bil