Re: [gutvol-d] New canonical URL for etext directories

Steve Thomas wrote:

I see that you are also redirecting old-syle files, e.g.

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext90/getty11h.htm

is redirected to

http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext90/getty11h.htm

Would it not be better to redirect these to the catalog, e.g.

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext90/getty*

could redirect to

http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/4

That would ensure that anyone using old-style links would get directed to the latest version(s) of a work.

Something like that is already in place experimentally: If a deep link to a file is posted on a web page, I redirect to the bibrec page instead. Some people think this is a bad idea, though. -- Marcello Perathoner webmaster@gutenberg.org