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09.20.07
Resolve & Shorten URLs In C#
 By
Mads Kristensen
Recently I've needed a method that would look at some text and automatically discover all URLs and turn them into hyperlinks.
I've done that before so it was a matter of copy/paste. This time it was a little more complicated, because the resolved URLs could not be longer than 50 characters long. That was important because otherwise it would break the design. A long URL doesn't word wrap so it would end up bleeding out of the design.
So, the challenge was to resolve the URLs and turn them into links, while keeping the anchor text at a max of 50 characters long. To shorten the URL is easy enough, but it all comes down to how you want it shortened.
The rules
1. If the URL is longer than 50 characters then remove "http://".
2. If it still is longer than allowed it must compress the folder structure like shown below.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/server/2003/compare.aspx -> http://www.microsoft.com/.../compare.aspx
3. If the URL is still longer, then it must look for query strings and fragments and remove them as well.
The code
Implementation
To use these methods, just call the ResolveLinks method like so:
string body = ResolveLinks(txtComment.Text);
It works on URLs with or without the http:// protocol prefix. In other words http://www.example.com/ and http://www.example.com/ resolves to the same URL. This technique is implemented in the comments on this blog. You can test it by writing a comment with a URL in it.
Comments
About the Author:
Mads Kristensen currently works as a Senior Developer at Traceworks located
in Copenhagen, Denmark. Mads graduated from Copenhagen Technical Academy with a multimedia degree in
2003, but has been a professional developer since 2000. His main focus is on ASP.NET but is responsible for Winforms, Windows- and
web services in his daily work as well. A true .NET developer with great passion for the simple solution.
http://www.madskristensen.dk/
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