October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
489 pages
12h 2m
English
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Tame Long Yahoo! URLs
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Most of the time, we’re all surfing the Web in virtual isolation. It’s just you and the computer, and the last thing on your mind is the length of a URL at a page you’re visiting. But as soon as you want to share the piece of the Web you’re viewing with someone else, the length of a URL becomes important.
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Trimming Yahoo! URLs
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