redirect dead links back to calagator root #145 #149
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There's a test for the link generation helper in That said, I'm not sure if linking back to Calagator's root is the optimal behavior for these sites that have been shut down. I think we should either remove the linking behavior for these services, letting the tags act like normal Calagator tags, or adopt Audrey's suggestion from yesterday to present a page telling people that the service has shuttered and offering them a link to archive.org version of the URL. |
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I liked Audrey's suggestion, I heard it after doing this commit. I can probably fix this up, but I'm not super familiar with Archive.org. Are we talking about just offering a link to the whole URL history on archive.org? i.e. https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1234 ? Or should we link to the last working version of that URL on archive.org? Because that's probably something the Wayback Machine API could do, I just don't know how without some additional time expenditure. |
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From looking at the docs at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Using_the_Wayback_Machine#Specific_archive_copy and towards the bottom of http://archive.org/web/web-advancedsearch.php, it looks like the date provided in the archive.org URL doesn't have to be an exact match for the version and can be truncated. So, for this event, we can generate an archive.org link based on date of the event, which will redirect to the closest known version to that date, like so: https://web.archive.org/web/20100914/http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/6568739 In the case of Upcoming, this isn't much to look at, but other services may fare better. For venue tags, I suggest using the creation date of the venue for the archive date. |
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Made a new pull request #159 per these discussions. Closing this one. |
Unsure of where these should ultimately be redirected.