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Re:Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL by ay on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @09:01PM (#2464831)
I am missing something. How is this dramatically different from passing around the data: URIs ?

data:text/html;charset=utf-8,However,%20data%20URI%20does%20the%20same%20without%20the%20server.

Here is a self-containing cached document, for simple texts probably with a better efficiency than base64.

EDIT: ah. The shorteners barf if you try to "shorten" the data URIs

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Re:Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL by th on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @09:29PM (#2464887)
Actually tinyurl will shorten it but your browser may not allow the redirect. Chrome throws up an error page for security reasons: http://tinyurl.com/3maue6t
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Re:Hashify.me - store entire website content in the URL by ay on Tuesday April 19, 2011 @10:43PM (#2465053)
Ha, nice - I tried only goo.gl and bit.ly

With http://preview.tinyurl.com/3maue6t it works, btw.

Though, tinyurl still barfs when I try to shorten the data URI that http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/cgi/data/data gave to me when I let it grab the index of HN.

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