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Old 08-02-2012, 02:56 AM   #1
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Posts URLs: static or dynamic?


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I usually keep records, in my local files, containing references to LQ posts. These references are the post URL which I know are static (I mean, they do not change with time). But for how long would such a reference be valid? I.e., can these URLs change in the predictable future?
 
Old 08-02-2012, 03:10 AM   #2
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It's possible if the software is modified, but with the same code base, they will remain the same. The link format was changed about oooh... 4 years ago maybe, adding in the portion of the thread title AFAIR, so the URL had more integrity than just being a number, made it impossible to just crawl all the threads sequentially.
 
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Old 08-02-2012, 03:18 AM   #3
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Like always in all sort of things. Trying to improve it we get it worse, a thing I can see when shopping. Well, I think I'll use the thread title instead and thanks for your useful, I mean it, information.

This makes me remember the law suit against Intel which resulted in its having to change numbers for names for the designation of its IA architecture processors. A thing cascade9 saw as a useful thing but which I do not. I.e., they have numbers for family, model and stepping, and an Intel Celeron could be just family 6, model 11, stepping 1.

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Old 08-02-2012, 03:21 AM   #4
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Hmm? Pretty sure I've said there are no plans for it to change, and I don't see what more I can say other than that. Jeremy may well be able to make a stronger confirmation about it though I guess. Maybe he would be able to ensure existing URLS always work even if the format is adjusted at some point.
 
Old 08-02-2012, 03:32 AM   #5
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Hmm? Pretty sure I've said there are no plans for it to change, and I don't see what more I can say other than that. Jeremy may well be able to make a stronger confirmation about it though I guess. Maybe he would be able to ensure existing URLS always work even if the format is adjusted at some point.
Well, you said it had changed 4 years ago. I do not see any reason why it wont again in four more years.
 
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All URI's at LQ will work indefinitely. While we changed the link format a few years back, all old URI's still work, they simply redirect to the new format.

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Thanks Jeremy.
 
  


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