All kinds of subtlety here. For example, what to do if the site happens
to be down while we check it? What about respecting robots.txt etc?
Joshua
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From: [email protected]
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Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2006 10:04 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ydn-delicious] Maintaining the del.icio.us links
On Aug 15, 2006, at 10:14 AM, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:
> rikmaes wrote:
>> [snip...]
>> Is there any solution for this obsolescence problem?
>
> I'd very much like an automated facility like this. Links
could be
> classed "dead" and denoted by CSS or something. Obviously they
> shouldn't be removed automatically, since it may be temporary.
But a
> notification to the user, and a special system:dead tag or
somesuch,
> would prompt people that they need to look for that resource
> elsewhere.
What about page-moved redirect codes? You could have d.i.u check
for
that http return code and update the URL appropriately.
- siege
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