April 21, 2011 at 12:26Webpage = URL
The beautiful Hashify.me service takes the content of a web page and hashes it in the URL. As a result, you get a huge link in which text and pictures are encoded. This link can be passed through Bit.ly - and get a short link. In fact, the Hashify site already supports the Bit.ly API, so a short link is automatically generated.
The creators of Hashify circumvented the Bit.ly limit on the maximum URL length of 2048 characters. They simply break up larger documents into chunks in Base64 (up to 15 pieces), which they send to Bit.ly in a single request. The answer is then hashed in Hashify and againsent to Bit.ly, so that the output is a single link. In this way, Hashify can generate short links for documents up to approximately 22,500 characters long.
The Hashify HTML page editor supports not only text, but also normal formatting, lists, headers, images. More details here .
In practice, this can be used, for example, to broadcast large text messages on Twitter. But the creators of the service were not looking for practical use. They check the very concept that webpage = URL. Bit.ly is used for caching and decoding content.
The creators of Hashify circumvented the Bit.ly limit on the maximum URL length of 2048 characters. They simply break up larger documents into chunks in Base64 (up to 15 pieces), which they send to Bit.ly in a single request. The answer is then hashed in Hashify and againsent to Bit.ly, so that the output is a single link. In this way, Hashify can generate short links for documents up to approximately 22,500 characters long.
The Hashify HTML page editor supports not only text, but also normal formatting, lists, headers, images. More details here .
In practice, this can be used, for example, to broadcast large text messages on Twitter. But the creators of the service were not looking for practical use. They check the very concept that webpage = URL. Bit.ly is used for caching and decoding content.