def index(): if request.method == 'POST': thing = request.form.get('url') if thing: if '://' not in thing: thing = 'http://' + thing # Verify the URL parsed = urlparse(thing) if parsed.scheme not in ('http', 'https'): return "I only take HTTP or HTTPS URLs, dummy" urlhash = hashlib.sha1(thing).hexdigest() try: url = Url.get(Url.url_hash == urlhash) except: url = Url() url.url = thing url.url_hash = urlhash url.created = datetime.datetime.now() url.save() # hokay. got us an ID, let's make a key. url.key = base36_encode(url.id) url.save() return render_template('added.html', short_url="http://{0}/{1}".format(request.headers['host'], url.key)) else: return "You didn't give me shit" else: return render_template('index.html')