Bug #64540 for Algorithm-URL-Shorten: Always returns the same values

Thu Jan 06 09:18:17 2011 peter [...] makholm.net - Ticket created

Subject:

Always returns the same values

No matter which URL you try to shorten with this module the same 4 values is returned. - This is fixed by commit 41dc278 in https://github.com/pmakholm/Algorithm-URL-Shorten But I have no idea what the use case for this module is. Why is this 4 times 6 character representation of the md5sum of a url a better unique representation that the URL itself or than the 40 character hex representation of the sha1sum?

Thu Jan 06 10:10:52 2011 ALEXBIO [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

Il Gio 06 Gen 2011 09:18:17, pmakholm ha scritto: Show quoted text

> No matter which URL you try to shorten with this module the same 4

values Thanks for reporting. This was caused by a recent change and a previous bug (which was not noticeably until said change) I made in the yesterday's release (I released too fast, I think :/). Show quoted text

> - This is fixed by commit 41dc278 in > https://github.com/pmakholm/Algorithm-URL-Shorten

Pulled and closed. Thanks for the help. Show quoted text

> But I have no idea what the use case for this module is. Why is this 4 > times 6 character representation of the md5sum of a url a better

unique Show quoted text

> representation that the URL itself or than the 40 character hex > representation of the sha1sum?

Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_shortening#Purposes The module was intended to implement a simple algorithm for URL shortening to be used as helper in a URL shortening web service.

Thu Jan 06 10:10:53 2011 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Thu Jan 06 10:10:53 2011 ALEXBIO [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'patched'

Fri Jan 07 05:02:18 2011 ALEXBIO [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'patched' to 'resolved'