redirect to url instead of throwing 404

[Saifallak]

redirect to url instead of throwing 404

[ash-jc-allen]

Hey @Saifallak! Would this be for if a short URL with the given key didn't exist? Or would it be for if the destination URL (that we're redirecting to) doesn't exist? 🙂

[Saifallak]

if a short URL with the given key didn't exist

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i don't have any control over destinations

[ash-jc-allen]

I think I'd be open to something like that, yeah! 😄

I don't know if you already have any ideas (which I'm open to), but I'd probably be leaning towards something like letting the developer define the custom behaviour in a service provider and doing something like:

ShortURL::handleMissingUsing(function () {
    // Logic goes here that is run when we visit a short URL that doesn't exist.
});

Feel free to suggest anything else though that you might think would be useful 🙂