- From: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@swartzfam.com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 17:37:51 -0600
- To: <roconnor@uwaterloo.ca>, <www-talk@w3.org>
- CC: Dan Brickley <Daniel.Brickley@bristol.ac.uk>
roconnor@uwaterloo.ca <roconnor@uwaterloo.ca> wrote: > I want to have a URL such as [for latest data]. > I [archive it], but all the bookmarks > and links people have made from my original page will be pointing to the > wrong file. > > This seems like a problem to me. Indeed, this a problem I believe many webmaster have struggled with. The same problem affects PURLs and other sorts of locators. A large part of this problem is the poor implementation of temporary redirects in browsers (which treat them no differently than permanent redirects). The Content-Disposition header might also be useful in such a situation, but I have never seen it implemented either. The simplistic solution, which most people I've seen fall back on is the use of good old hypertext links. W3C specs have a header that includes latest version, this version, previous version. Many weblogs have icons called permalinks (often denoted by the text permalink or an asterisk (or some similar symbol) after the entry) to deal with this problem. However, most people who aren't webloggers will likely not understand this functionality. It also seems unlikely that browser will fix these problems anytime soon, so for now, hypertext seems the best bet. Hope this helps, (CC: Dan Brickley, because of our previous discussions on this subject.) -- [ Aaron Swartz | me@aaronsw.com | http://www.aaronsw.com ]
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