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lucaspiller
Deal with URL length limits
How about gzipping the text, base64 encoding that and then on the other side doing precisely the opposite?
That's exactly what happens at the moment, but we use raw deflate rather than the gzip file format.
Outside Internet Explorer the limit for URL length is always above 100k (tested for a project 2 years ago and re-tested recently)
how hard would it be to just incorporate a url shortener? There's a free shortener called tny.im. You can simply prefix the url you want to shorten with tny.im/ & hitting enter. Going to http://tny.im/https://github.com/lucaspiller/shortly/issues/2 would create a short url for this url. You could easily create a bookmarklet to do it too.
I meant as an option as I way to share a long snippet of text. There are plenty of url shorteners, but not many that let you just share a long snippet of text. This is perfect for saving snippets, but the length of the url does make it more difficult to share.
You can easily shorten a url with tny.im by saving javascript:void(window.open('https://tny.im/index.php?format=simple&action=shorturl&url='+escape(location.href))) as a bookmarklet.