On 13 June 2011 22:28, sebb <[email protected]> wrote: > On 13 June 2011 20:38, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 00:49 +0100, sebb wrote: >>> The link: >>> >>> Commons Httpclient (http://commons.apache.org/httpclient/) >>> >>> is currently redirected as follows: >>> >>> Redirect Permanent /httpclient http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-3.x >>> >>> However, that does not exist; HC 3.1 is now at >>> >>> http://hc.apache.org/httpclient-legacy/ >>> >>> Instead, there are the following redirects: >>> >>> Redirect permanent /httpclient-3.x/index.html /httpcomponents-client-ga/ >>> Redirect permanent /httpclient-3.x/userguide.html /httpcomponents-client-ga/ >>> Redirect permanent /httpclient-3.x/tutorial.html >>> /httpcomponents-client-ga/tutorial/html/ >>> Redirect permanent /httpclient-3.x/methods.html >>> /httpcomponents-client-ga/tutorial/html/ >>> Redirect permanent /httpclient-3.x/sslguide.html >>> /httpcomponents-client-ga/tutorial/html/ >>> Redirect permanent /httpclient-3.x/authentication.html >>> /httpcomponents-client-ga/tutorial/html/ >>> Redirect permanent /httpclient-3.x/threading.html >>> /httpcomponents-client-ga/tutorial/html/ >>> Redirect permanent /httpclient-3.x/features.html >>> /httpcomponents-client-ga/tutorial/html/ >>> Redirect permanent /httpclient-3.x/cookies.html >>> /httpcomponents-client-ga/tutorial/html/ >>> Redirect permanent /httpclient-3.x/redirects.html >>> /httpcomponents-client-ga/tutorial/html/ >>> Redirect permanent /httpclient-3.x/logging.html >>> /httpcomponents-client-ga/logging.html >>> >>> I don't understand why HC3.x redirects to the current version of HttpClient. >>> Would it not be better to redirect to the 3.x documentation, but add a >>> warning at the top of the index page to explain that the current HC is >>> elsewhere? >>> >> >> Sebastian, >> >> That was the only way I could think of to make Google top search results >> refer to the latest HC version. See HTTPCLIENT-1029 [1] for details. > > I see. > > Google does now direct searchers to > hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga so perhaps it has now caught up > (or maybe the redirect has done its job). > >> Feel free to remove those redirects or point them at a different >> location. > > I think the best is to drop the redirects, but first ensure that the > HC 3.1 page(s) are updated to direct users to the new code. > That should be done anyway. > > I'll work towards that.
I've updated the HC3.1 trunk - which is what seems to have been used to create the existing site - and added EOL paras to the main top-level files: features index news overview userguide These have now been uploaded to people. The previous files were copied to the directory feb2008 I've also removed the redirects. Hope that all works OK. >> Cheers >> >> Oleg >> >> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HTTPCLIENT-1029 >> >> >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
