link_shortener/README.md
Raphael Maenle 85850a9d63 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
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## 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