Django - Affiliate links setup with URL redirection

Does anyone know of any better ways to replace long affiliate URL's with cloaked links or short, such that users only see shortened links开发者_运维技巧.

Something like this : "anothersite.com/offer.html/affiliate_id=001" cloaked like this: "http://site.com/click/offer"

Assuming if there more affiliate links like this, setting up redirection would easily fill up urls.py with more patterns. Django’s built-in generic views provide ways to setup (external) URL redirection applications but just wondering whether there are any better ways to do this without filling the .htaccess or urls.py.

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If you want to be able to build on this in the future, you could create your own simple model:

class AffiliateLink(models.Model):
    slug = models.SlugField(unique=True)
    full_url = models.URLField()

Then create a view to do the redirection:

def affiliate_link(request, slug):
    link = get_object_or_404(AffiliateLink, slug=slug)
    return redirect(link.full_url)

Then setup the urls file:

(r'^affiliates/(?P<slug>[^/]+/', 'myapp.views.affiliate_link'),

And that it.

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Django comes with an additional redirects app.