accordion is a URL shortener that works in a similar fashion to TinyURL.
accordion is written for fun and for educational purposes only. Please do not use accordion in a production setting! Typical features present in production HTTP servers like https support are not implemented!
Once the dependencies above are installed on your system, run the following in the root of the source tree:
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=release ..
cmake --build .
This will build the accordion binary in the build directory.
By default, accordion will listen on port 8888. To change this port, start accordion with the port as an argument. e.g. accordion 12345 will listen on port 12345. accordion also requires an active redis connection on localhost:6379. At the moment, this is not configurable but perhaps a brave developer can put together a PR to add it in :) To quit accordion, simply press Ctrl+D in your terminal or kill the process.
When accordion is launched, you can browse to <hostname>:<port> on your browser and you'll be greeted with a (super) simple form to enter your URL that you wish to minify. Enter your URL and click Submit.
Once you submit, accordion will generate a minified URL (called the accordion URL) and return it to you in a beautiful page:
Once you have this accordion URL, you can now navigate to it in your browser and accordion will redirect you back to the orginal URL you entered :) In this case, that's DuckDuckGo.
- no
httpssupport foraccordion - long URLs are not checked for validity and must start with the protocol (
http(s)://) - only compatible with *nix systems