Is there a way to dynamically adjust a url, using some kind of network-gate? 📦

10    10 Mar 2021 17:56 by u/Retrofire

YouTube basically doesn't allow annotations anymore. So I can't change anything after upload. I'm going to make a website fairly soon, but I'm not certain about the exact domain yet. So I was going to add a url to my video, and I was thinking if I could somehow modify it later (using a web-portal) to redirect to the website that would be AWESOME. And way easier ideas?

4 comments

2 u/None 10 Mar 2021 18:10
Most registrars should let you set up http redirects in the admin panel which just gives the browser a new URL to go to instead. If you mean keeping the URL the same but sending the user to a different website invisibly you could use a CNAME record in your domains DNS. I'm not sure if that would retain the path in the request, if that was a requirement I've done this before by pointing my dead URL to an AWS lambda to do the redirection but retain the pathname. Hope that helps, I'm not very experienced in Ops
1 u/Retrofire [OP] 10 Mar 2021 18:15
thx for helping :) hmmmm very interesting. ya I suppose I could set something like this up myself, using my own domain... so basically how this would work (web-dev retarded atm) is it would ping your DNS, then access your server, request the new url, and then it would send that new url to the users' browser, right?
2 u/DanielGregg 11 Mar 2021 00:08
You could create a short link using Tiny.cc and edit the link later. You might be able to do the same with other URL shortener services. I tried to give you a link to the Tiny.cc web page but it looks like Ruqqus does not allow links to any URL shortener domains.
2 u/Retrofire [OP] 11 Mar 2021 01:44
ohhh very cool :) thank you kind sir edit: oh noes. it looks like they need to whitelist domains before using them. and my website domain isn't set up yet, nor is it whitelisted :I but it would work well for most stuff prob edit 2: ok for some reason I created another account and it's working now v( ‘.’ )v edit 3: but it does push you to enroll in a subscription with enough redirects