In some ways I have already done this by simply using the permalink to a tiddler mywiki.com in which is the long link you can click on or in some cases an iframe, sure it does not automatically follow the long address but this is actually I nice feature because you can give more info and allow the user to confirm they want to visit the long address.
- You could use static html tiddlers to present each long link
- You could use a single shorturl to get to the wiki and provide the tiddler after that
- Eg short.url/sdfg/#tiddlername
- If you want to shorten the tiddlername using obscure coding you can create tiddlers with short names but use an alt title to display the easy to read title in tiddlywiki.
- I think Unicode can be used in many links now and that may provide shortening opportunities eg;
mywiki.com/🔗/#sger
- untested.
Considering your suggestion I think we would be best publishing a static html or other “file” with each address and think we can modify the template such that it includes a html redirect after N seconds.
- Although if you have an internet facing node server this “static template” can be done automatically.