Unless I'm missing something, tinyurl.com sound like what you need.
A one time create.
Cheers,
Norm Dennis
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From: PcTech [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2018 03:27
To: PC Technical Discussion for IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries) Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Can a URL point to a URL
Jeff,
Your examples are not URLs, they are domain names. This leaves me unsure if
you're asing a question about domain names (and just didn't know what they
were called) or if you really meant a URL, but gave oversimplified examples.
A URL would be something like
http://www.shortcut.com/path/file.html.
It's a single string that explains the protocol used (http in my example,
though there are many others, ftp, smtp, etc) the host's domain name (or IP
address) and also a path to a file. Some of that, however, can be
"defaulted" (i.e. the default document on the site, the default protocol for
a given application, etc) which is why I'm not 100% sure what you mean.
If you do really mean a URL, the easiest thing would be to use a URL
shortening service like tinyurl.com or bit.ly. You could write your own, of
course, it'd likely be a web application that simply redirects.
If you just mean the domain name... DNS has a feature called CNAME which is
an alias, so assuming that you controlled DNS for the short name, you could
enter a CNAME RR that points to the long name.
Of course, I have no way of knowing if your hosting provider supports it...
I run my own DNS servers, so I'm not aware of what various hosting providers
allow.
-SK
On 1/17/2018 3:17 PM, Jeff Crosby wrote:
I'm not a network/DNS geek by any stretch, so don't laugh at this
question. Unless you're having a crappy day and this question
improves it. :)
Suppose there's a long URL such as
www.thisisareallylongurlthatnooneeverremembersorwantsto.com
that points to IP 1.2.3.4.
Can one go out to GoDaddy (or whichever service is used) and set up a
URL such as
www.shortcuturl.com
that, instead of pointing directly to IP 1.2.3.4, instead points to
www.thisisareallylongurlthatnooneeverremembersorwantsto.com
so if
www.thisisareallylongurlthatnooneeverremembersorwantsto.com
is ever changed to point to a different IP address, then
www.shortcuturl.com
automatically follows to the new IP address.
Thanks.
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