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https://github.com/bahamas10/node-url-shortener

Spawn up a simple webserver to act as a URL shortener
https://github.com/bahamas10/node-url-shortener

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Spawn up a simple webserver to act as a URL shortener

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url-shortener
=============

Spawn up a simple webserver to act as a URL shortener

Usage
-----

### Terminal 1

$ url-shortener
[2013-01-11T23:29:43.579Z] server listening on http://localhost:8090
{ github: 'https://github.com', paste: 'http://pastebin.com' }
[2013-01-11T23:29:56.600Z] 127.0.0.1 GET 200 / (2ms)
[2013-01-11T23:29:59.214Z] 127.0.0.1 GET 301 /paste (1ms)

### Terminal 2

$ curl -s localhost:8090 | json
{
"paste": "http://www.pastebin.com",
"github": "https://github.com"
}
$ curl -I localhost:8090/paste
HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Location: http://www.pastebin.com
Connection: keep-alive

Config
------

pass the config file name as the first argument

### config.json

``` json
{
"host": "localhost",
"port": 8090,
"gid": null,
"uid": null,
"urls": {
"paste": "http://www.pastebin.com",
"github": "https://github.com"
}
}
```

Install
-------

npm install -g url-shortener

License
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MIT Licensed