On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 8:40 AM Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]> wrote: > > El dissabte, 9 de novembre de 2019, a les 19:21:30 CET, Ben Cooksley va > escriure: > > On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 12:38 AM Albert Astals Cid <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > El dissabte, 9 de novembre de 2019, a les 1:02:01 CET, Ben Cooksley va > > > escriure: > > > > Any comments? > > > > > > Cool URIs don't change > > > https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI > > > > While that would be nice, in practice they do end up changing - and > > many of the above mentioned sites are simply redirected straight to > > the wiki so the only page that would have worked for the compatibility > > redirect is the Index page for that project. > > > > Given many of them are extremely old, and which nobody will be trying > > to access anyway, > > Says who?
Says the server logs for the virtual host that supports all of those redirects. All of the traffic is pretty much bots, vulnerability scanners and bulk information scrapers. > > I just went into google, spent 1 second and there's there's hundreds of links > to accessibility.kde.org, why would we want to break all those links? As noted earlier, only https://accessibility.kde.org/ as a page would actually send you anywhere useful. https://accessibility.kde.org/events/meeting1/ for instance, was never translated across to the wiki, so just gets you an empty page on the wiki. For all intents and purposes, these links are already completely dead. > > Does it really cost us *anything* maintaining a redirect? Yes, it does - both in terms of logic within a virtual host in Apache, as well as the necessary entries in our zone file (which have to be waded through whenever we are adding entries) > > Cheers, > Albert Cheers, Ben > > > we should go ahead and retire them (and as Volker > > noted in another response to this thread, many of the compatibility > > redirects we put in place are themselves broken because pages have > > moved around both within and between the various wikis we host) > > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Albert > > > > > > > > > > Regards, > > Ben > > > > > >
