Debian current weekly news should use indirect link
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html as well.
Gentlemen, looking at http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/ we see the
latest issue can always be found at
http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/current/issue/
However, for us caching proxy users of e.g. wwwoffle, it is a shame
that there is no level of indirection introduced, thus overwriting the
file each week so we can't read old issues offline without having
first explicitly gotten
e.g. http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2002/43/
The unchanging "current" URL is essential for us to use wwwoffle's
monitor feature to fetch at regular intervals, but a level of
indirection should be introduced like
$ wwwoffle -O http://lwn.net/current/|s
HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2002 11:28:20 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.22 ...
location: http://lwn.net/Articles/11624/
<p>Your browser should have redirected you to <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/11624/";
P.S. that was the last time i tried there, because now they are
non-free, and mom told me not to frequent non-free things.
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