# purl-rs
A simple URL-shortener in Rust.

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 uses
[CGI](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface).

I use Nginx as my web-proxy, and run the cgi-binaries through
[slowcgi(8)](https://man.openbsd.org/slowcgi). See `nginx.conf` for
example-configuration.