Alibaba Group Holding Limited
Method and device for processing short link, and short link server

Abstract:

Techniques for navigating webpages requested through short links are provided. In some implementations, a short link uniform resource locator (URL) is received, the short link URL is processed to extract a simplified short link and an address code, and a determination is made as to whether the simplified short link is associated with a long link URL representing an address of a webpage. In response to determining that the simplified short link is associated with a long link URL, the associated long link URL is provided. In response to determining that the simplified short link is not associated with a long link URL, a common long link URL associated with the address code is provided.