Don't break existing links!

[Werner Koch]

On Fri, 06 Dec 2002 15:57:24 +0100, Michael Nahrath said:

> Mirroring will be a problem in any case if your content negotiation is based
> on Caudium features ...

No it is not.  It is exactly the same as with aPache.  Caudium just
changes the links on the fly for internal purposes.  When it runs
Apache woul won't get the extra path element.

>> Number 3 is server dependent.

> The only good solution (for a bad problem).

> Clients have to know, that the old site does no more exist.

> There is a special response code to inform about this in http:

> Have a look at 
> <http://webtools.mozilla.org/web-sniffer/view.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nahra
> th.de%2Fmichael%2F&verbose=on> and try <http://www.nahrath.de/michael/> in
> comparison. That is what it has to look like.

> The server has to send a "301 (Removed Permanently)".

I loaded the redirecion module and entered redirects for

exact /gnupg.html http://www.gnupg.org/
exact /gpa.html   http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpa/
exact /gpgme.html http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/

It works without problems.  We just need to compile such a list.



Shalom-Salam,

   Werner