Improve code sharing URL generator

[Manu343726]

I have noticed that the share URL generator just inserts the code and the compiler settings in the URL.
That works, but for large code snippets and sites with limitted URL lengths (Yes Twitter/stackoverflow, I'm talking about you...) that URLs cannot be shared easily/directly.

It would be awesome if the web generates better (shorter) urls. I think that URLs are generated in that way because GCC explorer server does not host the sourcecode, only provides a compiler frontend. But would be great if the server push the code automatically to a web like pastebin.com, and when the URL is accessed, that code is pulled from that web and written in gcc-explorer automatically.

[auselen]

6816c58 tries to improve sharing a little bit with some compression. That doesn't give you a terrific ratio of improvement (2/3 after 1-2k size), but I think that was a low hanging fruit.

[mattgodbolt]

Thanks to a patch supplied by Malcolm Rowe we at least now have goo.gl URL shortnening. The pastebin stuff is a great idea but requires a little more support for things like XSS. I'm going to leave this open still as it would be really nice to have.

[auselen]

readonly stuff makes it looks awful with chrome, was that necessary?

[mattgodbolt]

How does it look to you? Looks just fine to me!

[image: Inline image 1]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 3:26 PM, Ali Utku Selen notifications@github.comwrote:

readonly stuff makes it looks awful with chrome, was that necessary?

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Matt

[auselen]

May be just make it a link instead of an input for intuitiveness?

[auselen]

when you move mouse over it to copy, mouse pointer turns into a no sign, select copy thing becomes ugly as well.

I couldn't capture screenshot with mouse pointer :) however your screenshot didn't show up as well in this thread.

[mattgodbolt]

How bizarre - what platform are you on? On my Ubuntu laptop the mouse
pointer is a regular pointer when over the permalink box.

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 3:30 PM, Ali Utku Selen notifications@github.comwrote:

when you move mouse over it to copy, mouse pointer turns into a no sign,
select copy thing becomes ugly as well.

I couldn't capture screenshot with mouse pointer :) however your
screenshot didn't show up as well in this thread.

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Matt

[auselen]

This one is a Win7, aero pointer stuff. Apparently it is called unavailable

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs37/i/2008/246/a/8/Windows_Aero_Glass_Curve_by_yanomami.png

[mattgodbolt]

That's really odd! The URL really ought to be non-editable but that
shouldn't make the pointer unavailable. I'll check in with my HTML expert
and see if we can fix it. Thanks for reporting the issue!

On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 3:37 PM, Ali Utku Selen notifications@github.comwrote:

This one is a Win7, aero pointer stuff. Apparently it is called unavailable

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs37/i/2008/246/a/8/Windows_Aero_Glass_Curve_by_yanomami.png

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Matt

[mattgodbolt]

Malcolm has supplied another patch which hopefully solves this issue! Let me know if there are still any issues.

[malcolmr]

I assume this was fixed by #47?

[mattgodbolt]

Closing; I believe it's fixed...