What are CURIs
CURIs are Compressed URIs which are easier to share and use wherever it
is desirable to replace a long and verbose URI with something a little bit
easier for humans to type or short message services to transmit.
The way it works: all URIs are stored in a database table which keeps
a unique id number. This number is then converted to base58 encoding,
which uses lowercase letters, uppercase letters and numbers from 1
to 9. Note that uppercase letters I and O are not used in this encoding to
eliminate misinterpreting the letters O and I as numbers 0 and 1.
Using the API
Creating Compressed URIs through the API:
GET /c/create?uri=<URI>&res=json
Returns a JSON object containing 2 elements:
{uri:"<Original URI>",c_uri:"<Compressed URI>"}