Make url shortener

[vikiival]

Based on Cloudflare KV worker we should be able to:

• Register new handle - url
• change handle's url
• remove handle
• redirect to url

Ref:

• https://github.com/kodadot/ops-internal/issues/287

Tech stack:

• Rust preffered
• Typescript with Hono possible

[alko89]

https://github.com/kodadot/ops-internal/issues/287 throws 404 :)

[vikiival]

Which one?

[alko89]

https://github.com/kodadot/ops-internal/issues/287 it seems to be an internal repo

[vikiival]

kodadot/ops-internal#287 it seems to be an internal repo

There is just some context but TL;DR

The output is simple

So to have full story:

• you have a collection lets say alko89
• you want to have a custom slug via kodadot

there should be a POST call register that saves key: alko89 with value: <any https:// url>

when would then do <name-of-the-worker>/<key> it would redirect me to value.

Ideally having some sort of cache would be also good, so we save some reads (for ref you can check image or docs)

[alko89]

I've done a basic implementation and while working on it I've come up with a few questions:

• When posting a key, how do we prevent spam? Allowing anyone to POST will essentially allow anyone to create keys. Should there be some form of auth implemented for this endpoint or will it be protected in some other way?
• Should the worker include a DELETE endpoint? If so the same question arises how to protect it.
• What should happen when posting the same key twice? Should the key be overwritten with the new value or should it throw an error that the key already exists?

[vikiival]

Hey good questions.

1. Only users with cloudflare API key should be authorized

2. Same as one

3. Since I wrote there handler for change, create throw err

[alko89]

ok then, if I understand from the auth perspective I don't really have to do anything since it will work as an internal service right? :thinking:

Did the rust version, I noticed you added CORS rules in other projects, guess they should be present in all workers?