This is a link shortener written in go.

The shortened hash is calculated by base62 encoding the number of links currently stored.

###Use There are 5 commandline options for short

• -h: Host address to listen on, defaults to localhost
• -p: Port to listen on, defaults to 8080
• -b: Base Address: this is base address of the shortener, defaults to http://localhost:8080/
• -c: Max Connections: defaults to 512. Not Currently Used
• -r: Redis Address: defaults to localhost:6379

Example Serving directly

short -h shortdoma.in -p 80 -b http://shortdoma.in/

Behind a proxy with a remote Redis box:

short -h localhost -p 12345 -b http://shrtdm.in -c 5 -r http://redis.myserver:999393

####Create POST request to the root URL with the following JSON {"url":"http://example.com"} the folowing response is sent to you

{
	"Original":"http://example.com",
	"Short":"A",
	"FullShort":"http://localhost:8080/A",
	"HitCount":0
}

###TODO

• show stats for a URL
• correct response codes, 201, 404, 500
• tests
• channels