* brian d foy wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > The following module was proposed for inclusion in the Module List: > > > modid: WWW::Shorten > > DSLIP: Rdpfp > > description: API to URL shortening services > should this live in the URI namespace? A good idea. > maybe not---when i tried the actual service, it couldn't handle most > things i tried. it seems prejudiced against anything that's not HTTP. > even then it had trouble *shrug*. How so? Which service did you try? What sort of URLs? I have found web browsers tend to be reluctant to do some redirects (e.g. http to telnet), but that's more a browser problem. Anyway, if the services are prejudiced against the protocols, that's more a limitation of the services rather than the modules. After all, the modules only provide an interface to the servers. > i think something in the namespace should say something about what > you're shortening, though. A good idea. The current name mostly came about as an evolution of WWW::MakeAShorterLink, hence WWW::Shorten::*. A shift to URI::Shorten may be more sensible. cheers, -- Iain.
