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Sometimes you find that you need to save an extremely long link, like the one below, into a program that doesn’t allow links that long. For example Social Sciences Computing’s Classweb allows links to be 255 characters long, but the link below from UC-elinks i...

A URL, short for Uniform Resource Locator, is like a telephone number in that it gives a unique way of locating any web page in the world. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL URL official specification http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/url-spec.htmlFor Web Develop...

Section 5 of RFC 1738 – Uniform Resource Locators specifies the format of an HTTP URL:httpurl = "http://" hostport [ "/" hpath [ "?" search ]][definition of hostport omitted]hpath = hsegment *[ "/" hsegment ]hsegment = *[ uchar | ";" | ":...

http://ucla.in is a service, similar to tinyurl.com, that allows users to shorten a long link, share it, and then track the resulting usage, while keeping the ucla name as part of the link. While other link-shortening services exist such as http://bit.ly, only...