README.md

Golang URL Shortener

This application provides the service to generate short links of original long URLs and can redirect to the original URL from the short version.

Get Started

Build and Run

Run docker-compose up --build

Create a short link

Request:

curl -X POST http://localhost:8080/api/shorten -d '{"url":"https://www.google.com"}'

Response: 

{"shortlink":"4c94"}

Redirect from short links

Request:

curl -sL -o /dev/null -D - http://localhost:8080/4c94

Response:

HTTP/1.1 307 Temporary Redirect
Location: https://www.google.com
...
HTTP/2 200
...