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Re: shorter URL problem on web.mit.edu

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerome H Saltzer)
Tue Feb 6 01:03:48 1996

Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 01:03:23 -0500
To: Eddie Kohler <eddietwo@delft.lcs.mit.edu>
From: Saltzer@MIT.EDU (Jerome H Saltzer)
Cc: web-request@MIT.EDU, bugs@MIT.EDU, 6.033-staff@MIT.EDU

At 12:43 AM 2/6/96, Eddie Kohler wrote:
>Hi, I am the webmaster for 6.033
>and we seem to be having some problems with short URLs
>(ie.,        http://web.mit.edu/6.033/www/home.html
> instead of  http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/course/6/6.033/www/home.html
>).
>
>I tried to access the 6.033 home page via the short URL listed above
>tonight at about 12:30 and was told "Document contains no data" by
>Netscape. (Mosaic reports an error.) Earlier in the day the document
>was served correctly. The document is still served correctly via the
>long URL.

Curious.  The short URL's for 6.012, 6.071, 6.728, 6.170, and 6.891 are
working, but the short URL's for 6.070 and 6.033 are both broken.

                                Jerry



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