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RotURL is a simple substitution cipher for encoding/obscuring URLs embedded in other URLs (e.g. in a querystring). Also, common chars that need to be escaped (:/?=&%#) are mapped to infrequently used capital letters, so this generally yields shorter query
RotURL is a simple substitution cipher for encoding/obscuring URLs embedded in other URLs (e.g. in a querystring)
To avoid increasing size during urlencode, commonly encoded chars are mapped to more rarely used chars.
Module simply exposes object with two methods:
rot(str) - where str is a string you want to encode
derot(str) - reverse operation, takes str and returns original value
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RotURL is a simple substitution cipher for encoding/obscuring URLs embedded in other URLs (e.g. in a querystring). Also, common chars that need to be escaped (:/?=&%#) are mapped to infrequently used capital letters, so this generally yields shorter query
We found that roturl demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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