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greenshackle2 on May 14, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: A URL Lengthener

I'm a bit disappointed that the lengthened URL for http://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa... itself doesn't work. That is:

https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

EDIT: Uh, I don't know what I did differently, but this one works:

https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

EDIT: Looks like the site is actively being updated, there are new option checkboxes, the self-reference link only works with "Use a path instead of an URL" checked

EDIT: I repeatedly lengthened maybe a dozen times, that seems to get it stuck in a loop:

https://aaa.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...

piemadd on May 14, 2021 [–]

I think you were accessing the site while I was working on some changes haha! I think whats happening in the one while goes in an endless loop, your URL legitimately got too long for browsers to comprehend so some data got cut off

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