Thomas Krampl thokra
thokra
/ easy_way.rb
Created
September 2, 2012 11:55
— forked from mislav/easy_way.rb
RESOLVE SHORT URLS before storing. Short URLs are for microblogging; you should never actually keep them around.
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| require 'net/http' | |
| # WARNING do not use this; it works but is very limited | |
| def resolve url | |
| res = Net::HTTP.get_response URI(url) | |
| if res.code == '301' then res['location'] | |
| else url.to_s | |
| end | |
| end |