[Pdweb] please put the dev docs back

IOhannes m zmoelnig zmoelnig at iem.at
Wed Sep 27 09:40:49 CEST 2006


Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2006, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> 
>> so in theory(!) i see no reason to have 2 separate branches with the 
>> same topic but different content.
> 
> Do it like DMOZ and the Yahoo index do. To overcome the fact that 
> categories in the index are arborescent but categories in your head are 
> not, pick one of the two possibilities as your main one and use a 
> hyperlink to the other one.
> 
>> and finally: please use relative linking whenever possible. there is 
>> really no point in linking from http://puredata.org/bi/ba to 
>> "https://www.puredata.info/bi/borg" when "borg" would have done the same.
> 
> isn't it the only way to switch from http to https by using a link? (is 
> https:borg a valid relative URL?) is there any reason to make an 
> explicit switch from http to https in this case?

that was the point:
people are automatically redirected to https://<whatever> when (before) 
they log into the portal, in order to not transmit passwords in plain-text.
when they now edit their page, they often just copy the link from the 
linkbar (which now is on https).
anonymous (http) visitors of the website, now get loads of https-links 
(and the poor server's load jumps up)

mfg.asdr
IOhannes



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