On 2001-08-07 22:10, "Victor Rehorst" <victor_at_newtontalk.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Aug 2001, C.W. Otto Sohn wrote:
>
>> Well, sure, you CAN get SOME of the old TIL articles that way (using
>> "search" with Knowledge Archive) but still, anything that returns something
>> like: ".../article.html?artnum=n12784" is per se NOT static URL (notice the
>> "?" before "artnum=..."). There are so many Newton (and other) articles
>> that used to be on TIL that are no longer accessible with Knowledge
>> Archive. BTW: A static URL would be something like this: "...
>> /techinfo.nsf/artnum/n12784" (no "?", no "=", etc.).
>
> It's impossible to tell just from the structure of the URL whether or not
> a page is statically served or dynamically generated. Just because the
> URL is like this:
>
> http://www.newtontalk.net/index.html
>
> does not guarantee that part of or the entire document hasn't been
> generated by a program, either through an SSI, or general web server
> configuration wizardry. Unless you were buddy-buddy with a loose-lipped
> Apple webmaster, there is no way to tell if this:
>
> http://til.info.apple.com/techinfo.nsf/artnum/n12784
>
> is static or dynamic. And it really only matters if the web server is
> changed.
I think we're enjoying a bit of a mix-up as to what is a "static" or
"dynamic" URL...
Apple's TIL articles aren't static webpages, they haven't been for ages.
They're generated on the fly by Apple's webservers. But what was meant here,
is that the URLs that appear in the location field of your browser when you
display an article found through the new knowledgebase search engine, can't
be bookmarked or passed on, because it is only valid for that particular
session.
>> Joost, can you recall how many TIL articles you had linked on your website?
>> It was definitely way more than the few that Apple's Knowledge Archive
>> returns with "search".
>
> Searching karchive for 'newton' yields 146 results.
> Searching karchive for 'knmp' yields 116 results.
>
> Were there really more than that?
I count 340 in my list of Newton/MessagePad/eMate URLs.
>> other non-Apple groups/companies) now need to re-write all their former TIL
>> links. Is this really necessary? Well, even Apple should do re-linking
>
> Well, do you want me to write a Perl script that fixes all of the links
> in a file? Should take me about 10 minutes, tops.
Don't strain yourself. BBEdit fixed my whole site in about 5 seconds. :-)
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