Enhance URL Shortener with Hashing, Unique ID Generation, and Collision Prevention Mechanisms

[Shreeshailgoudapatil]

Currently, the URL shortening logic in the project uses a basic random string generation approach, which could lead to potential issues like collisions, scalability problems, and inefficiency in high-volume use cases. This can affect the reliability of the shortened URLs as the project grows.

How to improve:

• -Hashing Algorithms: Using a secure hashing algorithm (e.g., md5, sha256, or hashids) to generate short URLs based on the long URL, ensuring consistency and reducing the chances of collisions.
• -Along with that we can use Unique ID Generation: Leveraging UUIDs or incremental IDs combined with base62 encoding to create more compact, unique, and scalable short URLs.

Benifits👍 Collision Prevention: Implementing robust collision detection and avoidance mechanisms to ensure that no duplicate short URLs are generated, even as the database grows larger.

These enhancements will make the URL shortening process more reliable, scalable, and secure.

I can contribute to this feature and work on implementing it! Please let me know if you could assign me this task.

[muruga21]

@Shreeshailgoudapatil Great ! I have assigned to you... you can work on it

[Shreeshailgoudapatil]

Thanks for assigining.

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