On the DTrace community front page, the link to the DTrace Guide is not working. Link given on front page :- http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-6223 Suggested correct link :- http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-6223 This message posted from opensolaris.org
G''Day Folks, Does anyone know what is happening with docs.sun.com? Their recent change has broken many links across the Internet. I can''t imagine they haven''t heard of referers, so why would they delibrately sabotage so many links? Somebody please explain. If I fix the link - will docs.sun.com break it again in another few weeks? Brendan On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Aaron Browne wrote:> On the DTrace community front page, the link to the DTrace Guide is not working. > > Link given on front page :- http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-6223 > > Suggested correct link :- http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-6223 > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > dtrace-discuss mailing list > dtrace-discuss at opensolaris.org > >
Brendan Gregg wrote:> G''Day Folks, > > Does anyone know what is happening with docs.sun.com? > > Their recent change has broken many links across the Internet. I can''t > imagine they haven''t heard of referers, so why would they delibrately > sabotage so many links? Somebody please explain. > > If I fix the link - will docs.sun.com break it again in another few weeks? >Hi Brendan - They did this a while back - we ran into this on BigAdmin too (alot of places) - it is basically replacing ''/db/'' with ''/app/docs/'' - first time they have done in a while - but it shouldn''t happen again for a bit... Was kinda of a pain - cause it wasn''t announced and we didn''t really notice until we started getting all kind of broken links reports (they should have done some kind of re-direct at least). Thanks.> Brendan > > > On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, Aaron Browne wrote: > > >>On the DTrace community front page, the link to the DTrace Guide is not working. >> >>Link given on front page :- http://docs.sun.com/db/doc/817-6223 >> >>Suggested correct link :- http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/817-6223 >> >> >>This message posted from opensolaris.org >>_______________________________________________ >>dtrace-discuss mailing list >>dtrace-discuss at opensolaris.org >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ > dtrace-discuss mailing list > dtrace-discuss at opensolaris.org >-- Robert B. Weeks - robert.weeks at sun.com WPE * Starlight * BigAdmin
Robert B. Weeks wrote:> They did this a while back - we ran into this on BigAdmin too (alot of > places) - it is basically replacing ''/db/'' with ''/app/docs/'' - first > time they have done in a while - but it shouldn''t happen again for a bit...Has anyone explained to the docs.sun.com maintainers how incredibly bad it is to change links like this without leaving a redirect? They lose all google findability and break countless sites - whatever minimal benefit they got from the rename can''t be worth the damage done. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering