I think that it's always on www-03, just that the front-end server is smart
enough to redirect. As for problems caused by bookmarking--IBM can't keep
their own links working within the site, so you might as well bookmark
things when you find them, but expect the links to break without notice.

On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 9:51 PM, Paul Gilmartin <
[email protected]> wrote:

> (Trying again; trying not to fumble the links this time.)
>
> I notice that many Knowledge Center pages are at server www-03.ibm.com.
> E.g:
>     http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/
>
> ... but if I excise the "-03":
>     http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/
>
> ... it promptly redirects back to www-03.  So, I wonder:
>
> o Is the -nn redirection used for load balancing which I thwart by
> bookmarking
>   it explicitly?
>
> o Or is www-03 stable so I should bookmark it?
>
> o Or am I infringing on T&C by so deep-linking in a bookmark?  The page
> above
>   has a T&C link, so they seem to expect me to bookmark and share it.
>
> - gil
>
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