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@@ -1,12 +1,13 @@ # purl-rs A simple URL-shortener in Rust. -I created this URL-shortener because it turned out that my previous one, `purl`, -which was written i perl, was impractical to run in a `chroot` environment. +I created this URL-shortener because it turned out that my previous one, +[`purl`](https://git.dnns.no/purl/about/), which was written i perl, was +impractical to run in a `chroot` environment. This new one, written in [Rust](https://www.rust-lang.org/), has far fewer dependencies to worry about in a `chroot` environment. It is written as a -replacement for the old `purl`, and therefor uses +replacement for the old `purl`, and uses [CGI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface). I use Nginx as my web-proxy, and run the cgi-binaries through |