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[random42]

Would it be possible to make readonly url from the baseurl manually also, instead of server generating it.

eg., http://codr.cc/s/xyz/ as read only url for http://codr.cc/xyz/ base url, instead of waiting for server to spew out http://codr.cc/s/abc/ as read only url.

[jmonegro → random42]

The problem with it is that then people can access your edit url, and in many cases that's something you wouldn't want.

[anthonyb → jmonegro]

What about two parts? http://codr.cc/s/xyz/abc as the editing url, and http://codr.cc/s/xyz as the read only? That way you need to know abc to edit, but can pass xyz around.

[jmonegro → anthonyb]

If that's known, then I can just remove /s/ and /abc and I'll gain access to your file, no?

In any case, vanity url's is a feature I plan on adding.

[anthonyb → jmonegro]

No, wrong way around - long url is editable, short one is read only.