Possible Duplicate: how to shorten the url in a mathematical approach Its a college django project.. where I can't really setup a database model to store dynamically generated URLs and redirect to short urls based on hashed primary key.. etc I am thinking in lines of encrypting URL using some algorithm and decrypt on the server. Initially, I thought of using md5 hash but I guess we can't decrypt. My actual URL would look like: http://mydomain.com/photo?friend_name=dennis&me_name=ritchie&ping_url=http%3A%2F%2Fmydomain.com%2Fimg%3Furl%3Dhttps%3A%fsjcsd.googleueusercontent.com%2F-Sf6bP2nOKa8%2FUMaw8vv0QLI%2FAaaddjhnkchkjda7E%2Fs800%2FHosbsco.png%26message%3Dhi+dude I am thinking it to convert into: http://mydomain.com?encode=hksfhsfksuhkvbkjnukvns Then on server side I thinking to convert hksfhsfksuhkvbkjnukvns back to actual string. Is there any Python Lib I have Continue reading...
