From fe3bf927a2424a9192b448c19328ed99c9da53d2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Pieter de Bie <pdebie@ai.rug.nl>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:45:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] TinyURL: return the complete url if the TinyURL service fails

---
 lib/support/tinyurl.rb | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/support/tinyurl.rb b/lib/support/tinyurl.rb
index 6bf2389..7c19151 100644
--- a/lib/support/tinyurl.rb
+++ b/lib/support/tinyurl.rb
@@ -3,7 +3,11 @@ class TinyURL
   def self.tiny(url)
     return nil unless url
     http = Net::HTTP.start("tinyurl.com", 80)
-    response = http.post("/create.php", "url=#{url}")
+    begin
+      response = http.post("/create.php", "url=#{url}")
+    rescue Exception => e
+      return url
+    end
 
     if response.code == "200"
       body = response.read_body