Golinks

A simple utility to redirect from short-links, like go/foo, to full urls, like https://google.com.

In order to use this, you'll want to download a browser extension (the main interaction involves browser navigation). Available for Chrome and Firefox.

Backend

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Extension

Does two things:

• has a popup to let you set new shortlinks
• intercepts requests to https://go/<path> and redirect them to the CloudFlare worker backend.

Firefox

Firefox is particularly reluctant to actually navigate to a URL like "go/foo". Because they don't look like valid links, it will usually default to performing a Google search.

To fix this, go to about:config and add a config entry for browser.fixup.domainwhitelist.go = true. This will tell Firefox that go is a valid domain, all on its own, and it should try resolving it.

References:

• https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1642435
• https://iafisher.com/blog/2020/10/golinks