How to generate a unique hash for a URL?

Question

Given these two images from twitter.

http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/130500759/lowres_profilepic.jpg
http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/58079916/lowres_pr         


        

Answer 1

A very simple approach:

f( "http://a3.twimg.com/profile_images/130500759/" ) = a3_130500759.jpg
f( "http://a1.twimg.com/profile_images/58079916/" )  = a1_58079916.jpg

As the other parts of this URL are constant, you can use the subdomain, the last part of the query path as a unique filename.

Don't know what could be a problem with this solution