Re: many dead links on the Debian books page!!!
On Thu, Nov 07, 2002 at 12:29:57PM +0100, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> * Roland Riegler <rriegler@access.unizh.ch> [2002-11-07 10:22]:
> > no further comment. Please correct that.
> > thanks
>
> Well, thank you for your nice message. Which links do you refer to?
> Our linkcheck just reports the following five links.
>
> http://www.mcp.com/detail.cfm?item=0672317451 : Error = (500) Server Error
> http://www.mcp.com/detail.cfm?item=0672317001 : Error = (500) Server Error
>
> For this two it can't find an DNS entry.
>
> http://www.newriders.com/ : Error = (405) Method Not Allowed
>
> Uhm, I can reach that one currently and see no problem there.
The site tries to set a cookie. I didn't bother trying to handle that.
[snip]
> http://www.borders.com/ : Error: site uses a non-compliant server. Not checkin
>
> That page gets redirected to amazon, amazon seems to have bought
> borders. Shall we change that link?
>
Go ahead.
OT: I note that when you go to www.amazon.com you get redirected to a
unique url each time, e.g.
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/102-4355343-3502569
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I can't see any reason they'd do that unless they are trying to track
you.
--
James (Jay) Treacy
treacy@debian.org
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