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Robin H. Johnson wrote: |
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> My quote was from the first sentence of RFC1738, sec 3.3 (HTTP), para 4. |
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Missed that, sorry. |
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>> Redirecting clients to new URLs would give you perfect caching as well. |
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> That's why I say i'm willing to do redirection at the cache level. |
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> I do NOT want lots of users with old links to hit the actually web application |
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> if it's just going to redirect all of them to a page that is already in the |
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> cache. |
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I thought you were doing caching/redirects on a service that sits before |
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the real webapp . |
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>>> - The old parsing and variable usage code was the source of multiple |
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>>> bugs as well as the security issue that shuttered the site. |
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>> Only because it passed the raw, unescaped values directly to shell, |
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>> which is of course badly broken. |
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> Have a look at the recent discussion about HTML5 issues |
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> (http://www.crockford.com/html/), which also applies to web applications: |
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> "HTML 5 is strict in the formulation of HTML entities. In the past, some |
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> browsers have been too forgiving of malformed entities, exposing users to |
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> security exploits. Browsers should not perform heroics to try to make bad |
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> content displayable. Such heroics result in security vulnerabilities." |
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I can't follow this one -- how are broken browsers related to |
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non-standard URLs? Why is an attempt to invent a competitive standard to |
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XHTML related to URLs? |
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>> Now that's something that sound reasonable. Why limit the period and |
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>> don't provide it forever? |
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> Time limited to force everybody to move over, and to not have to support |
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> the redirections for the old version of the site forever, when they |
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> weren't advertised as permanent URLs. |
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My question could be re-phrased as "why don't keep those redirects", but |
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you did the work, so you decide how to run it and I have no problems |
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with that :). |
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> I did a quick hack up of some statistics, and I see that only 6.7% (5001 out of |
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> (69434+5001)) of the overall visitors were arriving at the old locations and |
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> not receiving the content they were originally interested in. |
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Fine with me, thanks for your answers and all the work. |
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Cheers, |
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-jkt |
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