We believe that your issue has been closed by the upload of
Version 0.3.64 of grml-etc-core from Frank Terbeck <ft@grml.org>.
The explanation is attached below

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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 00:54:05 +0100
Source: grml-etc-core
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Version: 0.3.64
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Michael Prokop <mika@grml.org>
Changed-By: Frank Terbeck <ft@grml.org>
Description: 
 grml-etc-core - core ecetera files for the grml system
Changes: 
 grml-etc-core (0.3.64) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * zshrc: rewrite of zurl() by Alexander Steinböck [Closes: issue627]
   * zshrc: put "zsh: repo-name" into screen title if the user is in a
     VCS-controlled directory [Closes: issue635]
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> > Before invoking zurl(), the given URL gets tested for existence by
> > 'ping -c 1 $url'.
> > May that be too much of user guidance? Let alone paternalism. (o;
> This one doesn't apply anymore. Update?
Should work again.

> > > The function however is now just using zsh in-house means [...]
> > Actually, almost. There's still wget, which could probably be
> > replaced; but that's not really a priority...
> Are you thinking of zshtcpsys(1)?

Alexander Steinböck <bts@bts.grml.org>:
> Before invoking zurl(), the given URL gets tested for existence by
> 'ping -c 1 $url'.
> May that be too much of user guidance? Let alone paternalism. (o;

The other patch is in:
<http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-etc-core.git;a=commit;h=ccc94f4a8dcf92bdf3adacbdbf97c18b55fa0f8d>

This one doesn't apply anymore. Update?

Regards, Frank

> > The function however is now just using zsh in-house means [...]
> Actually, almost. There's still wget, which could probably be
> replaced; but that's not really a priority...
Are you thinking of zshtcpsys(1)?

> A check if wget is installed would be better, though.
> [...]
> add a check for external programs (wget) via 'check_com -c ...'.
Done.

> >  # create small urls via tinyurl.com using wget, grep and sed
> s:,.*$::
Good catch.
Done.

> I didn't try to understand what's going on here. But I'll trust you,
> that it works.
I'm flattered. (o; But I hope I've tested enough.

Alexander Steinböck <bts@bts.grml.org>:
> From 69e0206b11398ef84ff181d853749873a87c65db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: =?utf-8?q?Alexander=20Steinb=C3=B6ck?= <z3ttacht@grml.org>
> Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:01:13 +0100
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] zshrc: Rewrite of function zurl().
> 
> Because of changes in the HTML source code of TinyURL, zurl() wasn't working
> properly anymore. For instance, it's now 'copy(http://tinyurl.com/7efkze)'
> instead of 'value="(http://tinyurl.com/7efkze)'.

Heh, I noticed this, too, a few days back. But I was *way* to lazy to
fix it.

> The function however is now just using zsh in-house means and tries to provide

Actually, almost. There's still wget, which could probably be
replaced; but that's not really a priority...

A check if wget is installed would be better, though.

> some decent output. Including TinyURL's new preview feature.
> <http://tinyurl.com/preview.php>
> ---
>  etc/zsh/zshrc |   24 ++++++++++++++++--------
>  1 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/etc/zsh/zshrc b/etc/zsh/zshrc
> index 51141a1..9e2864c 100644
> --- a/etc/zsh/zshrc
> +++ b/etc/zsh/zshrc
> @@ -3924,15 +3924,23 @@ fi
>  
>  # create small urls via tinyurl.com using wget, grep and sed

s:,.*$::

>  zurl() {
> +#   Prepend 'http://' to given URL where necessary for later output.
> +    [[ ${url} != http(s|)://* ]] && url='http://'${url}
> +    local tiny='http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url='
> +    local grabber='wget -O- -o/dev/null'
> +#   Looking for i.e.`copy('http://tinyurl.com/7efkze')' in TinyURL's html code.
> +    local search='copy\(?http://tinyurl.com/[[:alnum:]]##*'
> +    local result=${(M)${${${(f)"$(${=grabber} ${tiny}${url})"}[(fr)${search}*]}//[()\';]/}%%http:*}
> +#   TinyURL provides the rather new feature preview for more confidence. <http://tinyurl.com/preview.php>
> +    local preview='http://preview.'${result#http://}
> +
> +    printf '%s\n\n' "${PN} - Shrinking long URLs via webservice TinyURL <http://tinyurl.com>."
> +    printf '%s\t%s\n\n' 'Given URL:' ${url}
> +    printf '%s\t%s\n\t\t%s\n' 'TinyURL:' ${result} ${preview}
>  }

I didn't try to understand what's going on here. But I'll trust you,
that it works.

Nice one, if you can fix the comment as I mentioned and add a check
for external programs (wget) via 'check_com -c ...'.

Regards, Frank

Before invoking zurl(), the given URL gets tested for existence by
'ping -c 1 $url'.
May that be too much of user guidance? Let alone paternalism. (o;

Because of changes in the HTML source code of TinyURL, zurl() wasn't working
properly anymore. For instance, it's now 'copy(http://tinyurl.com/7efkze)'
instead of 'value="(http://tinyurl.com/7efkze)'.

The function however is now just using zsh in-house means and tries to provide
some decent output. Including TinyURL's new preview feature.
<http://tinyurl.com/preview.php>