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authorEvan Prodromou <evan@status.net>2010-04-26 02:40:36 -0400
committerEvan Prodromou <evan@status.net>2010-04-26 02:40:36 -0400
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treec46047c9a09a48548262f27ca68cfc676bee42c0 /README
parent727ea5a5163249eb40fa0c4b2c63054fc997473b (diff)
Give users more control over URL shortening
Users and administrators can set how long an URL can be before it's shortened, and how long a notice can be before all its URLs are shortened. They can also turn off shortening altogether. Squashed commit of the following: commit d136b390115829c4391b3666bb1967f190a0de35 Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net> Date: Mon Apr 26 02:39:00 2010 -0400 use site and user settings to determine when to shorten URLs commit 1e1c851ff3cb2da5e0dc3a0b06239a9d9c618488 Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net> Date: Mon Apr 26 02:38:40 2010 -0400 add a method to force shortening URLs commit 4d29ca0b91201f6df42940297ed5b64b070efe49 Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net> Date: Mon Apr 26 02:37:41 2010 -0400 static method for getting best URL shortening service commit a9c6a3bace0af44bcf38d1c790425a7be9c72147 Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net> Date: Mon Apr 26 02:37:11 2010 -0400 allow 0 in numeric entries in othersettings commit 767ff2f7ecfd7e76e8418fc79d45e61898f09382 Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net> Date: Mon Apr 26 02:36:46 2010 -0400 allow 0 or blank string in inputs commit 1e21af42a685f600f4a53f49a194013e78b12f20 Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net> Date: Mon Apr 26 02:01:11 2010 -0400 add more URL-shortening options to othersettings commit 869a6be0f5779aff69018d02f9ac0273946040d9 Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net> Date: Sat Apr 24 14:22:51 2010 -0400 move url shortener superclass to lib from plugin commit 9c0c9863d532942b99184f14e923fc3c050f8177 Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net> Date: Sat Apr 24 14:20:28 2010 -0400 documentation and whitespace on UrlShortenerPlugin commit 7a1dd5798f0fcf2c03d1257a18ddcb9008879de0 Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net> Date: Sat Apr 24 14:05:46 2010 -0400 add defaults for URL shortening commit d259c37ad231ca0010c60e5cfd397bb1732874a4 Author: Evan Prodromou <evan@status.net> Date: Sat Apr 24 13:40:10 2010 -0400 Add User_urlshortener_prefs Add a table for URL shortener prefs, a corresponding class, and the correct mumbo-jumbo in statusnet.ini to make everything work.
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@@ -843,9 +843,7 @@ sslserver: use an alternate server name for SSL URLs, like
parameters correctly so that both the SSL server and the
"normal" server can access the session cookie and
preferably other cookies as well.
-shorturllength: Length of URL at which URLs in a message exceeding 140
- characters will be sent to the user's chosen
- shortening service.
+shorturllength: ignored. See 'url' section below.
dupelimit: minimum time allowed for one person to say the same thing
twice. Default 60s. Anything lower is considered a user
or UI error.
@@ -1468,6 +1466,22 @@ disallow: Array of (virtual) directories to disallow. Default is 'main',
'search', 'message', 'settings', 'admin'. Ignored when site
is private, in which case the entire site ('/') is disallowed.
+url
+---
+
+Everybody loves URL shorteners. These are some options for fine-tuning
+how and when the server shortens URLs.
+
+shortener: URL shortening service to use by default. Users can override
+ individually. 'ur1.ca' by default.
+maxlength: If an URL is strictly longer than this limit, it will be
+ shortened. Note that the URL shortener service may return an
+ URL longer than this limit. Defaults to 25. Users can
+ override. If set to 0, all URLs will be shortened.
+maxnoticelength: If a notice is strictly longer than this limit, all
+ URLs in the notice will be shortened. Users can override.
+ -1 means the text limit for notices.
+
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