https://github.com/bclozel/urlshortener

simple URL shortener application based on resthub + resthub-js
https://github.com/bclozel/urlshortener

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simple URL shortener application based on resthub + resthub-js

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bclozel/urlshortener
• Owner: bclozel
• Created: 2011-07-18T19:41:55.000Z (over 13 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2011-08-22T21:42:24.000Z (about 13 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-05-10T22:08:06.058Z (6 months ago)
• Language: Java
• Homepage:
• Size: 152 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# urlshortener

You'd think urlshortener is yet another flavor of URL shortener made with "the coolest framework".

urlshortener is in fact:

* a sample application made with RESThub and RESThub-js (so the "cool framework" part was actually right)

* an experiment on making a javascript application AJAX-crawlable 

# RESThub and RESThub-js

Both frameworks are hosted on [github](http://github.com/pullrequest) and their documentation is available

on [the official RESThub website](http://resthub.org).

# Crawlers and AJAX crawling

Usually AJAX content/javascript based UIs and web crawlers [don't mix](http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/learn-more.html). 

Google engineers dealt with this problem with [a "contract" that any website can implement](http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/getting-started.html) - basically a way of telling web spiders how to crawl your website.

This project is using a Filter with an embedded [HTMLUnit](http://htmlunit.sourceforge.net/) that [generates HTML snapshots](http://code.google.com/web/ajaxcrawling/docs/html-snapshot.html) of your website.

# Doing it "the right way™"

This technique fits pretty well for legacy applications. I don't think it's the best solution for a brand new application, though...