Allow user to create a shortened URL for the current search

[rfrenchseti]

Currently, the OPUS URLs can get horribly long, making them awkward to send by email. A user can create a shortened URL by going to a third-party site like tinyurl, but we could also do this for them by having a "Create Link" button on each page similar to the one provided by Google Maps. We could either use a third-party URL shortener or provide our own.

Original suggestion related to:

ServerName: pds-rings.seti.org ServerAddr: 104.244.248.19 LogNo: 23 ClientBrowser: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0 ClientHost: ClientAddress: 10.1.2.188 FromURL: https://tools.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/ LocalTime: Thu Dec 20 14:03:50 2018 FromUser: Matt Tiscareno Email: matt@seti.org Subject: API URLs CommentType: Suggestion Message: The URLs for an OPUS search contain much more information than they need to. For example, I just executed a search that came out with this URL: https://tools.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/#/instrument=Cassini+ISS&CASSINIobsname=262RI_PROPCLOSU&view=search&browse=gallery&colls_browse=gallery&page=1&gallery_data_viewer=true&limit=100&order=time1&cols=opusid,instrument,planet,target,time1,observationduration&widgets=CASSINIobsname,instrument,planet,target&widgets2=&detail=

However, the vast majority of that information has nothing to do with the parameters I entered, and its length makes it unsuitable for pasting into emails (as I have found a number of occasions to do). So my habit is to manually shorten it so that it contains the necessary information but nothing more than that. Sometimes this requires a bit of trial and error. What I ended up with in the case was the following: https://tools.pds-rings.seti.org/opus/#/instrument=Cassini+ISS&CASSINIobsname=262RI_PROPCLOSU

[rfrenchseti]

Could be useful. BYBTW 3/11/2021.