Disposable short url server intended to be used from the console (kinda like tinyurl).
shorty has two interfaces:
- Listens for TCP connections and transforms the provided URL to a short url.
- Listens for HTTPS requests with the given URL (step 1) and redirects the user to the original URL.
Short URL gets destroyed after the expiration time is exceeded.
shorty is not using any third-party package so go get is not needed.
Launch the server:
$ go build
$ ./shorty
[shorty] 2018/04/18 14:29:59.357699 setting up the shorty server on: localhost:6666
[shorty] 2018/04/18 14:29:59.357734 setting up httpd server on: https://localhost:443Request a URL and test the redirection:
$ echo "http://google.com" | nc localhost 6666
https://localhost/vKgGBO
$ curl -skL https://localhost/vKgGBO
<!doctype html><html itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/WebPage" lang="es-419"><head><meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"><meta content="/images/branding/googleg/1x/googleg_standard_color_128dp.png" itemprop="image"><title>Google</title>...
...On server side you will confirm the transaction:
[shorty] 2018/04/18 14:30:56.809310 processing connection from 127.0.0.1:49846
[shorty] 2018/04/18 14:30:56.809569 generated URL: https://localhost/vKgGBOTo launch the HTTPd server you'll need to generate or specify a key and certificate. For this, build_cert.sh is provided but you can choose your own way to do it.
In case the file index.html is present, it will be loaded if / or /index.html is requested.
Usage of ./shorty:
-L int
Length of url ID. (default 6)
-h string
Shorty server address. (default "localhost")
-l int
Short url lifespan. (default 10)
-p int
Shorty server port. (default 6666)
-wcert string
Shorty httpd ssl certificate path. (default "shorty.crt")
-wd string
Shorty httpd server domain to use. (default "localhost")
-wh string
Shorty httpd server address. (default "localhost")
-wkey string
Shorty httpd ssl private key path. (default "shorty.key")
-wp int
Shorty httpd server port. (default 443)- Why HTTPS only? Because that should be a must.