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Re:Show HN: URL shortner without Servier side processing, si... by debaserab2 on Saturday June 16, 2018 @01:15PM (#17328263)
Couldn’t anyone delete your entire database of URL’s trivially? Seems like this would be pretty unsafe to use for anything.
Re:Show HN: URL shortner without Servier side processing, si... by eberkund on Saturday June 16, 2018 @01:28PM (#17328328)
No, because despite the deceptive title it does actually use server side processing. It relies on https://www.jsonstore.io/ for the actual data storage.
Re:Show HN: URL shortner without Servier side processing, si... by detaro on Saturday June 16, 2018 @01:56PM (#17328504)
And the API key with write access is in the page source of the redirector, so it can do the lookup at jsonstore.io...