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A GUI for urlx

July 3, 2009 · 1 Comment

I’ve added a small GUI interface to urlx. The new program is called viewurlx

Enter the original URL in the textbox at the top…

…and click “Expand”

You should see a result such as:

viewurlx.cs

// ViewURLX.cs - Simple Winforms utility to expand shortened URL's.
// and display them.
//
// License: MIT / X11
// Copyright (c) 2009 by James K. Lawless
// jimbo@radiks.net http://www.radiks.net/~jimbo
// http://www.mailsend-online.com
//
// Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
// obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
// files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
// restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
// copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
// copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
// Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
// conditions:
//
// The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
// included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
//
// THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
// EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
// OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
// NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
// HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
// WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
// FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
// OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

using System ;
using System.IO ;
using System.Net;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace ViewURLX
{
   public class ViewURLX : System.Windows.Forms.Form
   {
      private System.Windows.Forms.Label lblOrigURL;
      private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox txtOrigURL;
      private System.Windows.Forms.Label lblEndURL;
      private System.Windows.Forms.TextBox txtEndURL;
      private System.Windows.Forms.Button btnExpand;
      private System.ComponentModel.Container components = null;

      public ViewURLX()
      {
         this.lblOrigURL = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
         this.txtOrigURL = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
         this.lblEndURL = new System.Windows.Forms.Label();
         this.txtEndURL = new System.Windows.Forms.TextBox();
         this.btnExpand = new System.Windows.Forms.Button();

         this.SuspendLayout();

         this.lblOrigURL.AutoSize = true;
         this.lblOrigURL.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(16, 16);
         this.lblOrigURL.Name = "lblOrigURL";
         this.lblOrigURL.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(30, 13);
         this.lblOrigURL.TabIndex = 0;
         this.lblOrigURL.Text = "Original URL:";

         this.txtOrigURL.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(100, 13);
         this.txtOrigURL.MaxLength = 327670;
         this.txtOrigURL.Multiline = false;
         this.txtOrigURL.Name = "txtOrigURL";
         this.txtOrigURL.ReadOnly = false;
         this.txtOrigURL.ScrollBars = System.Windows.Forms.ScrollBars.Both;
         this.txtOrigURL.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(480, 20);
         this.txtOrigURL.TabIndex = 1;
         this.txtOrigURL.Text = "";

         this.lblEndURL.AutoSize = true;
         this.lblEndURL.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(16, 48);
         this.lblEndURL.Name = "lblEndURL";
         this.lblEndURL.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(30, 13);
         this.lblEndURL.TabIndex = 2;
         this.lblEndURL.Text = "Expanded URL:";

         this.txtEndURL.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(100, 45);
         this.txtEndURL.MaxLength = 327670;
         this.txtEndURL.Multiline = true;
         this.txtEndURL.Name = "txtEndURL";
         this.txtEndURL.ReadOnly = false;
         this.txtEndURL.ScrollBars = System.Windows.Forms.ScrollBars.Both;
         this.txtEndURL.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(480, 80);
         this.txtEndURL.TabIndex = 3;
         this.txtEndURL.Text = "";

         this.btnExpand.CausesValidation = false;
         this.btnExpand.Location = new System.Drawing.Point(270, 160);
         this.btnExpand.Name = "btnExpand";
         this.btnExpand.Size = new System.Drawing.Size(64, 24);
         this.btnExpand.TabIndex = 4;
         this.btnExpand.Text = "Expand";
         this.btnExpand.Click += new System.EventHandler(this.expand);

         this.AutoScaleBaseSize = new System.Drawing.Size(5, 13);
         this.ClientSize = new System.Drawing.Size(600, 200);
         this.Controls.AddRange(new System.Windows.Forms.Control[] {
                                                                     this.lblOrigURL,
                                                                     this.txtOrigURL,
                                                                     this.lblEndURL,
                                                                     this.txtEndURL,
                                                                     this.btnExpand
                                                                      });
         this.Name = "ViewURLX";
         this.Text = "ViewURLX - by Jim Lawless";
         this.Load += new System.EventHandler(this.ViewURLX_Load);
         this.ResumeLayout(false);
      }
      private void ViewURLX_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
      {
      }

      protected override void Dispose( bool disposing )
      {
         if( disposing )
         {
            if (components != null)
            {
               components.Dispose();
            }
         }
         base.Dispose( disposing );
      }

      private void expand(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
      {
         txtEndURL.Clear();
         System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Current =
            System.Windows.Forms.Cursors.WaitCursor;
         try
         {
            HttpWebRequest req =
               (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create (txtOrigURL.Text);
            req.AllowAutoRedirect=true;
            HttpWebResponse res =
               (HttpWebResponse)req.GetResponse ();
            ServicePoint sp = req.ServicePoint;
            txtEndURL.Text= sp.Address.ToString();
         }
         catch(Exception ex)
         {
            MessageBox.Show("Error :" + ex.ToString());
         }
         System.Windows.Forms.Cursor.Current =
            System.Windows.Forms.Cursors.Default;
      }

      public static void Main(string[] args)
      {
         Application.Run(new ViewURLX());
      }
   }
}

You may download the source and .NET 2.0 EXE for viewurlx here:

http://www.mailsend-online.com/wp/viewurlx.zip

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