URL shortener

[ziirish]

Hi sebsauvage,

here is a little patch to add a "shorten url" option using a local webservice such as yourls ( http://yourls.org/#API )

Of course using the url shortener makes the url "publicly" available thru the url shortener database.

[kpankonen]

this was already a feature that was removed - 241c75a

[ziirish]

I know this feature was removed, but it was using an external webservice.

Here I'm using a local one so even if the URLs are stored in the shortener service database (which is not a good idea for critical pastes) I can still remove it which is not the case if you are using a third-party url shortener.

Plus, the $.get does not allow cross site requests (unless you are using jsonp) so this implementation limits the risk of "privacy leak".

[sebsauvage]

Using a local url shortener implies that the server knows the key, which defeats the purpose of ZeroBin itself.

[ziirish]

Of course using a url shortener makes your paste "unsecure". But let's take a simple example: if you want to share your paste on twitter (I know this is totally fool), they will shorten your url and then makes your paste very unsecure.
Now I use my own url shortener, I can share my shorten URL on twitter, they reshorten it, but if I want to disable my link, I can.

[sebsauvage]

So you want to be able to disable the link without disabling the paste itself ?

[ziirish]

Yes, that's the idea.

Plus a little "eyecandy" URL thing assuming my paste is not so "secret"

Maybe I should add a warning message/pop-up while using this option.