link_shortener/README.md

## Link shortener

this project is a tiny flask implementation that automatically generates
shortened links for any url.

If you're on a website, `add short.maenle.tech` to the beginning of the url,
and the flask app returns a shortened url that it saves in a json file on the
server and forwards to the original url when accessed.


## Further Todos

- add https encryption
- add uWSGI
- use sqlite3 instead of json
initial commit, adding flask structure, README, routes - routes defined in routes.py uses the <path:..> function to catch every non-empty url comming along - request.full_path is used to get the entire url, as <path:> would remove eg GET '?' from the url, which we don't want for the link forwarding. - request.full_path[1:] removes the '/' from the url 2021-08-12 11:45:31 +02:00			`## Link shortener`

			`this project is a tiny flask implementation that automatically generates`
			`shortened links for any url.`

			If you're on a website, `add short.maenle.tech` to the beginning of the url,
			`and the flask app returns a shortened url that it saves in a json file on the`
			`server and forwards to the original url when accessed.`


			`## Further Todos`

			`- add https encryption`
			`- add uWSGI`
			`- use sqlite3 instead of json`