Frequently Asked Questions

You may have some questions you'd like answered:

Will my chomped UrlBit URL ever expire? Never! Baring any type of unforseen disasters, like the server farms being knocked out by a Mahattan-sized meteorite, your chomped URLs will always be around!
Is it safe to use the UrlBit.Us Javascript link? Absolutely! All the link does is automatically send us the URL you wish for Us to chomp!
What if I loose my chomped URL? How can I get it it back again?It's easy -- just submit the same longish URL you submitted before, and you will get the same chomped URL you had before. Keep in mind that the longish URL must be exactly the same as the one you submitted before.
How long can my longish URL be? Currently, the longish URL must be 725 characters or less. This should cover 99.9% of the URLs, and anything too much longer will probably run into problems with some browsers anyway.
Can I link to UrlBit.Us? Of course! Please! Many thanks! See the linking instructions here.

Been here before PyClops Hello PyClops! How's the wife and kids?['/home/urlbit/site/web/php', '/usr/local/lib/python25.zip', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/plat-linux2', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/lib-tk', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/lib-dynload', '/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages', '/home/ecms/py'] What follows is a dump of req and session objects. GET ARGS = None FILENAME = /home/urlbit/site/web/faq.html REQUEST = GET /faq.html HTTP/1.1 URI = /faq.html CANONICAL= /home/urlbit/site/web/faq.html ============================================================ attribute __class__ = attribute __delattr__ = attribute __doc__ = 'Apache request_rec structure\n' attribute __getattribute__ = attribute __hash__ = attribute __init__ = attribute __new__ = attribute __reduce__ = attribute __reduce_ex__ = attribute __repr__ = attribute __setattr__ = attribute __str__ = attribute _content_type_set = 1 attribute add_common_vars = attribute add_handler = attribute allow_methods = attribute allowed = 0 attribute allowed_methods = () attribute allowed_xmethods = () attribute ap_auth_type = None attribute args = None attribute assbackwards = 0 attribute bytes_sent = 6494L attribute canonical_filename = '/home/urlbit/site/web/faq.html' attribute chunked = 1 attribute clength = 0L attribute connection = attribute content_encoding = None attribute content_languages = () attribute content_type = 'text/html' attribute document_root = attribute eos_sent = 0 attribute err_headers_out = {} attribute expecting_100 = 0 attribute extension = None attribute filename = '/home/urlbit/site/web/faq.html' attribute finfo = (1604, 49203120, 2065, 1, 628, 628, 1065, 1268205220, 1206819730, 1211647349, '/home/urlbit/site/web/faq.html', None) attribute flush = attribute get_addhandler_exts = attribute get_basic_auth_pw = attribute get_config = attribute get_options = attribute get_remote_host = attribute get_session = attribute handler = 'python-program' attribute header_only = 0 attribute headers_in = {'Cookie': 'pysid=4acf1ed769e84d714944250aa0b962ff', 'Pragma': 'no-cache', 'Cache-Control': 'no-cache', 'Connection': 'close', 'Accept-Charset': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7', 'Accept-Encoding': 'gzip', 'Accept-Language': 'en-us,en;q=0.5', 'Accept': 'text/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5', 'User-Agent': 'CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)', 'Host': 'urlbit.us', 'x-cc-id': 'ccc04-01'} attribute headers_out = {'Content-Type': 'text/html; charset=UTF-8', 'Transfer-Encoding': 'chunked', 'Connection': 'close'} attribute hlist = {'handler:'pyclops.base','silent':0} attribute hostname = 'urlbit.us' attribute internal_redirect = attribute interpreter = 'urlbit.us' attribute is_https = attribute log_error = attribute main = None attribute meets_conditions = attribute method = 'GET' attribute method_number = 0 attribute mtime = 0.0 attribute next = None attribute no_cache = 0 attribute no_local_copy = 0 attribute notes = {'ap-mime-exceptions-list': '`�', 'mod_rewrite_rewritten': '0', 'python_init_ran': '1'} attribute parsed_uri = (None, None, None, None, None, None, '/faq.html', None, None) attribute path_info = '' attribute phase = 'PythonHandler' attribute prev = None attribute proto_num = 1001 attribute protocol = 'HTTP/1.1' attribute proxyreq = 0 attribute range = None attribute read = attribute read_body = 1 attribute read_chunked = 0 attribute read_length = 0L attribute readline = attribute readlines = attribute register_cleanup = attribute remaining = 0L attribute request_time = 1268236618.4650459 attribute requires = attribute send_http_header = attribute sendfile = attribute sent_bodyct = 1L attribute server = attribute set_content_length = attribute ssl_var_lookup = attribute status = 200 attribute status_line = '200 OK' attribute subprocess_env = {'REMOTE_PORT': '40832', 'SCRIPT_FILENAME': '/home/urlbit/site/web/faq.html', 'SERVER_ADMIN': 'webmaster@urlbit.us', 'DOCUMENT_ROOT': '/home/urlbit/site/web', 'REMOTE_ADDR': '38.107.191.103', 'SERVER_PORT': '80', 'SERVER_ADDR': '66.211.137.248', 'SERVER_NAME': 'urlbit.us', 'SERVER_SOFTWARE': 'Apache/2.2.14 (Unix)', 'SERVER_SIGNATURE': '

Apache/2.2.14 (Unix) Server at urlbit.us Port 80

', 'PATH': '/sbin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin', 'HTTP_COOKIE': 'pysid=4acf1ed769e84d714944250aa0b962ff', 'HTTP_PRAGMA': 'no-cache', 'HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL': 'no-cache', 'HTTP_CONNECTION': 'close', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET': 'ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING': 'gzip', 'HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE': 'en-us,en;q=0.5', 'HTTP_ACCEPT': 'text/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5', 'HTTP_USER_AGENT': 'CCBot/1.0 (+http://www.commoncrawl.org/bot.html)', 'HTTP_HOST': 'urlbit.us', 'HTTP_X_CC_ID': 'ccc04-01', 'SCRIPT_NAME': '/faq.html', 'REQUEST_URI': '/faq.html', 'QUERY_STRING': '', 'REQUEST_METHOD': 'GET', 'SERVER_PROTOCOL': 'HTTP/1.1', 'GATEWAY_INTERFACE': 'CGI/1.1', 'SCRIPT_URI': 'http://urlbit.us/faq.html', 'SCRIPT_URL': '/faq.html', 'UNIQUE_ID': 'S5fBSkLTifgAAD1AZAYAAAAS'} attribute the_request = 'GET /faq.html HTTP/1.1' attribute unparsed_uri = '/faq.html' attribute uri = '/faq.html' attribute used_path_info = 2 attribute user = None attribute vlist_validator = None attribute write = ============================================================ attribute __class__ = **attribute error __cmp__ **attribute error __contains__ **attribute error __del__ attribute __delattr__ = **attribute error __delitem__ **attribute error __dict__ attribute __doc__ = 'Apache request_rec structure\n' **attribute error __eq__ **attribute error __ge__ attribute __getattribute__ = **attribute error __getitem__ **attribute error __gt__ attribute __hash__ = attribute __init__ = **attribute error __iter__ **attribute error __le__ **attribute error __len__ **attribute error __lt__ **attribute error __module__ **attribute error __ne__ attribute __new__ = attribute __reduce__ = attribute __reduce_ex__ = attribute __repr__ = attribute __setattr__ = **attribute error __setitem__ attribute __str__ = **attribute error __weakref__ **attribute error _accessed **attribute error _created **attribute error _dbmfile **attribute error _dbmtype **attribute error _get_dbm **attribute error _invalid **attribute error _lock **attribute error _locked **attribute error _new **attribute error _req **attribute error _secret **attribute error _set_dbm_type **attribute error _sid **attribute error _timeout **attribute error cleanup **attribute error clear **attribute error copy **attribute error created **attribute error delete **attribute error do_cleanup **attribute error do_delete **attribute error do_load **attribute error do_save **attribute error fromkeys **attribute error get **attribute error has_key **attribute error id **attribute error init_lock **attribute error invalidate **attribute error is_new **attribute error items **attribute error iteritems **attribute error iterkeys **attribute error itervalues **attribute error keys **attribute error last_accessed **attribute error load **attribute error lock **attribute error make_cookie **attribute error pop **attribute error popitem **attribute error save **attribute error set_timeout **attribute error setdefault **attribute error timeout **attribute error unlock **attribute error update **attribute error values clientdata =