Support for Aliases instead of redirects

[Pluuk]

Would it be possible to support aliases instead of redirects? I would love to have something like: alias /short-url to /category?filter=max_price,399 if that would be possible.

[ash-jc-allen]

Hey @Pluuk! Just to double-check I'm on the right lines, do you mean you want the ability to generate relative URLs rather than absolute URLs? 🙂

[Pluuk]

No, let my explain with another example:
Github is using your package, and they've created the following alias:
https://github.com/support-for-aliases -> https://github.com/ash-jc-allen/short-url/issues/2304?comment=true

Now, when you navigate to https://github.com/support-for-aliases, Laravel treats it internally as the url https://github.com/ash-jc-allen/short-url/issues/2304?comment=true, but the browser still shows https://github.com/support-for-aliases.

So the server is not redirecting, but it's treating the URL as another URL.

[Edit: github shortened the target url to #304]

[ash-jc-allen]

Ahhh I see what you mean now, thanks for the example! Unfortunately, I don't think that's something I'm planning on adding to the package, sorry. But if enough people want it, it's definitely something I'd consider in the future 😄