Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL

Re:Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL by jurjenh on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @07:08PM (#2464598)

I tried to make a self-referencing page, but you need to be able to generate the hash of the page url that includes its own hash...

Not having the time to do so, I leave the challenge here: http://bit.ly/ialoWI

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Re:Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL by th on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @10:25PM (#2465024)

That's not possible because the base 64 encoding is longer than the plaintext. There are 4 characters of text in the URL for every 3 characters of text entered.

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Re:Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL by sesqu on Wednesday April 20, 2011 @10:36AM (#2466753)

If you're willing to jump through hoops and js-compress your content, you can deal with this issue, unless your compressor uses something like crc. That way, you can grow the plaintext faster than the b64 - though you'd still need to do clever things with the url.

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Re:Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL by jarin on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @07:59PM (#2464725)

That's essentially what you're doing when you are trying to mine Bitcoin :)

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Re:Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL by jantangring on Thursday April 21, 2011 @12:08PM (#2471153)

http://tinyurl.com/JurjenHaitsma

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