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Description: A collection of scripts in various languages to find where a shortened URL redirects to.
Homepage: http://blog.paulbonser.com/2009/04/11/forget-rev-canonical-untiny-that-url/
Clone URL: git://github.com/pib/untinyurl.git
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This is a collection of functions in various languages to find where an shortened URL will redirect to.

Each file has a function called untinyurl which takes a single string argument, the shortened URL to look for, and will 
return a string result of either the long version of that URL, or the same short URL that was passed in if there was a 
problem.

The method used to get this information is doing an HTTP request (usually a HEAD request) and looking for the 
"Location:" header that is returned.

The main purpose of this repo is to encourage people to use the functions provided to un-tiny the URLs in their Twitter, 
or other microblogging service, clients.