The maximum url length is typically quite long.
Another thing is that you don’t necessarily need to encode uuids canonically. They are just u128’s. It’s relatively straightforward to find a url friendly string representation that is shorter.
Another thing is that you don’t necessarily need to encode uuids canonically. They are just u128’s. It’s relatively straightforward to find a url friendly string representation that is shorter.
Are we talking about shortening the whole URL or shortening specific UUIDs? If the latter then I imagine one would still need to keep track of the mapping UUID <-> shorten version, somewhere, right? If so, why not just add yet another field/column for an old good numeric integer that can be used for filtering? Would that work?
So a nonstandard but isomorphic shorter string representation.
Other than that; in IE6 times URL's had a limitation of 1K or 4K or something around that lenght IIRC, so unless you're using dozens of UUID's in a URL this hasn't been a problem for ages.