Local URL Shortener

riegel

If I have a URL shortener script installed in a subfolder of my status.net installation. How can I get status.net to make links out of the shortened URLS?

Specifically, I have yourls installed in a subfolder of my status.net installation. yourls is returning shortened URLs of the form a/1 where a is the name of the subfolder containing the URL shortener. However, status.net does not recognize a/1 as a URL and is not making it into a hyperlink.

Can you point me to the code I need to change to trick status.net into thinking that a/* should be a hyperlink?

Thanks!

ende

I'm also interested in this. :)

riegel

If you add the code at the bottom to util.php then it will recognize a/ as a hyperlink, but the link comes across as http://a/ So now I have to figure out how to prevent the http:// from being pre-pended...

This code belongs on util.php lines 664 through 667. I include the lines above and below so you can see where the change goes:

'(?:(?:mailto|aim|tel|xmpp):)'.
'|'.
'(?:(?:a/))'.
')'.

riegel

The http:// seems to be getting added in File_redirection.php in _canonUrl. Changing the default_scheme causes a "Can't linkify url" error in comon_linkify in util.php.

The quest continues...

riegel

So it works now! Yippie!

I had to take out quite a few safety checks. Here's what I did:
1. The change above to the regex on lines 664-667 in util.php
'(?:(?:mailto|aim|tel|xmpp):)'.
'|'.
'(?:(?:a/))'.
')'.
2. Change util.php lines 788-792 to:
} else {
//throw new ServerException("Can't linkify url '$longurl_data'");
$canon = "../$url";
$longurl = "../$url";
}
3. Comment out File_redirection.php line 252:
//if (empty($p['scheme'])) return false;
4. Comment out File_redirection.php line 258:
//if (empty($p['host'])) return false;

aric

@riegel thats great, do you have an account on gitorious, you could get your code merged in
@brionv was going to write a built in url shortener, we need one for sure.


http://gitorious.org/statusnet/mainline/commits/master

riegel

@aric Right now it's a hack. I just stripped out safety checks that may cause other things to go badly for me... I'll let my users play (meaning test) with this and see if they complain about other errors.

Also, for anyone else who stumbles on this post the plugin to integrate status.net with yourls is here: http://github.com/rthees/yourls-status-net

I'm not sure if you'd want to write your own URL shortener or just implement support for existing shorteners and make them part of the status.net distro.

riegel

Also, I forgot... I had to change the default parameter for default_scheme in _canonUrl on line 230 of File_redirection.php:

function _canonUrl($in_url, $default_scheme = '../') {

fullmag

Any way to make status.net work with YOURLs? My main domain is a URL shortener (http://gunn.in) and added a subdomain for my Status.net install. It is my ultimate goal to make them play nicely together.

Thanks,
~Full Mag~
http://blast.gunn.in

aric

@fullmag look in the plugins directory, there are plugins for different types of shorteners, you may be able to use one of the already written ones, or modify one for your needs.


heres and example of how you would enable it in your config.php http://lists.status.net/pipermail/statusnet-dev/2009-November/002717.html

fullmag

I found this plugin that has already been written to be able to use YOURLs with Status.net.

http://github.com/rthees/yourls-status-net

I am trying it out now. I'll post back to let you know if it worked.

Thanks,
~Full Mag~
http://blast.gunn.in

tonybaldwin

I tried that rthees/yours-statustnet, but it's 2 years old.
it has
require_once INSTALLDIR.'/plugins/UrlShortener/UrlShortenerPlugin.php';

but there is no UrlShortener/blah blah, in current SN.

I'm going to see if I can hack it and make it work by looking at the tight, ptit, simpleurl plugins, and what I know of my yourls installation.

tonybaldwin@tonybaldwin.me/status
tony@free-haven.org

tonybaldwin

Okay, I forked from rhtees, fixed the plugin, and now have it working.
New pluging (I changed one whole line) in https://github.com/tonybaldwin/yourls-status-net
It works with sn v. 1.0.1, pulled from gitorious today, and yourls v. 1.5

BenDolores

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