Description

Ziplinks is a web server that takes in web urls and combines them into a single shortened link.
It can be used to share a batch of links easily, save workflows or whatever you can come up with.

This was created to share reddit posts with my family when I visit, it is the server version of fanout-links.

Build / Run

You may build the server via image with make or with uncontainerized with Rust.

Make

make build
make run

Rust

cargo build
cargo run

Todo

Ziplinks is a purpose built web server and has only the parts it needs written (as opposed to implemented the entire HTTP protocol). There's a few things we need to do to make the code more sustainable / scalable in we were to extend this application.

1. Database integration
   • For simplicity, links are currently stored in a memory cache, as the size of links is incredibly small.
   • In the future a database should be used to be able to run more instances of ziplinks and increase throughput
2. Better link primitives
   • Links should have meta data including timestamps etc for future clean up
3. Better support for webpage generation
   • Only the basics implemented, we need a better way to insert headers / body elements for more complicated pages