Bill Sommerfeld <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 10:51 -0400, Brian Utterback wrote: >> And it wouldn't have to be forever, anyway. If you specify the >> redirects via "permanent relocation", then after a while many of the >> sources will note the move and update bookmarks, etc. Then a little >> time later, you examine the logs and see which pages are still getting >> traffic to the old URL and which do not. It is likely that the number >> of URLS still getting traffic will be much smaller than the total >> number of pages, so you whittle the redirect database down to just >> those and go back to your plan A for the rest. I bet the resulting >> database will be much smaller than the original one was. > > Some of the links will be impossible to update. > > For instance, the "zpool" and "zfs" commands embed: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/version/N > and > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/version/zpl/N > > (see "zpool upgrade" and "zfs upgrade", respectively).
I'd say that these URLs must continue to function for the life of the releases that refer to them, anything else would be a bug. They should get redirects, regardless of the discussion about redirects for the general case. -- Rich _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
