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Re: Stick in the mud...
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lugnet.admin.general
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Tue, 13 Jun 2000 21:06:40 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
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> In lugnet.admin.general, Kevin Loch writes:
> > In this example, if /foo/bar doesn't exist the user should get what /foo/bar/
> > points to, one way or another. Not a page to help them get to it. [...]
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> I agree that this is ideal in cases where the user may have mis-typed the URL
> by hand (or had been given the wrong URL from, say, a print ad in a magazine,
> and they typed it in by hand). I'm not sure it's ideal for cases where someone
> explicitly wrote the URL wrong when they made a link from another page.
Except that it's a pain to get a web page author to fix broken links on
their page which is effectively what you're saying. Given the way web
pages currently work, I think it's important to keep from breaking web
pages.
To this extent, I have put redirector code into .../index.html in my web
pages since I mostly don't have actual content in the index.html page.
In order to try an avoid broken links, I tend to link to a higher level
page if reasonable, and give directions as to how to get there. This is
because it's a pain to go fix all those links when stuff gets moved
around.
I also think that it's important when moving a page to leave a
re-director page at the old location as much as possible. I hate playing
the "hunt for the person's web page" game when /x/y/z/page.html suddenly
doesn't work (for one thing, not all servers provide something for /x/y
(and some annoyingly re-direct you to an error page so you need to go
find the original link and cut and paste it into your browsers URL field
so that you can play with modifying it).
--
Frank Filz
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Work: mailto:ffilz@us.ibm.com (business only please)
Home: mailto:ffilz@mindspring.com
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| (...) Oh, I didn't mean to suggest that /foo/bar should give a 404 error (page not found) if the HTTP referrer was from another webpage, I just meant that I don't believe it's an ideal solution to give a 301 (automatic redirect) in that case. (...) (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) I agree that this is ideal in cases where the user may have mis-typed the URL by hand (or had been given the wrong URL from, say, a print ad in a magazine, and they typed it in by hand). I'm not sure it's ideal for cases where someone (...) (24 years ago, 13-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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