Broken Links

[rafaelschipiura]

There's a ton of broken links in

https://docs.perl6.org/routine-operator.html

[molecules]

Did someone fix them? If not, please share an example of one that is broken. None of those I tried seemed to have problems. I used Microsoft Edge and Mozilla Firefox on Windows 10.

[zakame]

I reckon @rafaelschipiura mentioned https://docs.perl6.org/routine/.= in IRC: https://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6/2017-09-08#i_15134626

[rafaelschipiura]

For me tha5t page has a ton of error messages at the top complaining about the 404 links, so I thought it would be obvious it was broken.

Trying to be comprehensive, I opened all links and here are the ones that answer 404 for me:

https://docs.perl6.org/routine/.&
https://docs.perl6.org/routine/.*
https://docs.perl6.org/routine/.+
https://docs.perl6.org/routine/..$CIRCUMFLEX_ACCENT
https://docs.perl6.org/routine/.::
https://docs.perl6.org/routine/.:%3Cprefix%3E
https://docs.perl6.org/routine/.=
https://docs.perl6.org/routine/.$CIRCUMFLEX_ACCENT

Looking a bit more, I can fix the issue by adding ".html" at the end of the link. The problem seems to be links starting with "." but without ".html" at the end.

Sorry for taking so long for describing the bug, it was too late last night and I went to sleep.

[tisonkun]

#1593 and #1592 report similar problems
I wonder where I can find the source code of pages below https://docs.perl6.org/routine/

[tisonkun]

The problem is url in htmlify.p6 is quite messy, and

https://docs.perl6.org/routine/.?
https://docs.perl6.org/routine/?

are both broken links, because ? handled badly.

Out strategy on url is replace-badchars-with-goodnames, that is very strange to me, why not directly escapeHTML?

[coke]

I believe badchars is also trying the solve the issue of the local file names, not just the URLs.

[coke]

Note that util/test-links.sh should help find all broken links, not just the ones on this page.

[denis-beurive]

Hello,

I noticed a similar issue :

From the page https://docs.perl6.org/routine.html, I clicked to the link below:

https://docs.perl6.org/routine/.*

The required page does not exit. Instead, I can read the following instructions :

The page you tried to reach cannot be found. If you got here by following a link on this site, please report it on our GitHub repository so we can fix it!

Thus I report the error.

Please note that I had opened an issue for this problem #1791.

Denis

[JJ]

There's also an invisible broken link in the first row, which shows a white column


This is related also to #561, although some of them might be due to htmlify.p6 problems, and thus related to #1823

[JJ]

And also #561, of course...

[MorayJ]

I'm not closing this as I'm not sure of the history and the links (to the wider issue, rather than html links), but i've just run through all the links on the page and they are all working. This report ought to be closed.