255670 - TinyURL-style URL for links to bugzilla-reports

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 69000

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, enhancement)

Description

[Oliver White]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

I just emailed a complex bugzilla query to someone, and used a 688-character URL
to do so.  URLs that long will get split into many lines on email clients, are
difficult to publish on websites, and can't be used with IRC or chat clients.

Bugzilla has a feature to save such queries, but that only works within a login
session, i.e. I can only create a saved query that's accessible to myself.

Would it be possible to have a "get a tiny URL for this query" link, which saves
the query URL, assigns it a globally-unique number, and gives you that number as
for example:

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/savedquery?n=434500

All SavedQuery would have to do then was retrieve the 800-char URL from its list
and redirect the browser.

Naturally, requests to save URLs can be checked that they're within the right
domain, and if a duplicate, return the old number.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

How about a bookmarklet?

Stick this in your personal toolbar:    :)

javascript:void(location.href='http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url='+location.href)

Sharing queries is bug 69000.

Comment 2

[Oliver White]

> Use the tools at http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=.....

Sounds like the obvious idea that I missed.  Should I close this bug-report as
duplicate of bug 69000, and assume that a shared saved query will be accessible
by GET request?

Comment 3

[Vlad Dascalu]

Yeah.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69000 ***