[600] in IS Home Pages
fixing web.mit.edu/is.html
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin M. Cunningham)
Fri May 28 14:23:55 1999
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Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 14:23:48 -0400
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From: "Kevin M. Cunningham" <kcunning@MIT.EDU>
Howdy,
Someone reported that they could get to a page called http://web.mit.edu/is.html, which appeared to be a copy of the main IS page http://web.mit.edu/is/index.html -- but the links on the first page don't work.
What's going on is that the first page is a symbolic link to the second page. However, since the links on the page are relative links, they fail (for instance, there is no such page as web.mit.edu/newslink/index.html).
There were three possible fixes:
- delete the is.html symbolic link
- revise the links in is/index.html to be absolute URLs
- add a BASE HREF tag in the is/index.html file so the links work okay
I opted for the third solution, as the lazy way out. I don't think using absolute URLs (the second solution) would be appropriate in any case (even if it was even easier ;-). Perhaps the first solution would be best, but I'm not sure whether anyone links to the file, or why we put the symbolic link there in the first place.
I was looking for a short-term answer for now. For the long term, we should investigate deleting this file and making sure all links to it have been revised...
--Kevin
