svn commit: r302552 - head/games/formido

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 02:47:05AM +0400, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> * Doug Barton (dougb at FreeBSD.org) wrote:
> > If someone is willing to put the work into sweeping this, not only would
> > tab->space be useful, but what would also be useful would be to gather
> > all the WWW URLs and test to see if they are still valid first. I'm sure
> > a lot of them are not.
> 
> What are we going to do if they don't? We shouldn't remove them: first,
> it may be a temporary error, second, even if an URL is dead completely
> it may be used to find relevant info, e.g. in Internet Archive, or by
> googling pages that link to that URL.

Obviously, for an invalid URL (e.g. not found), we should try hard to find a
replacement.  Temporary errors (e.g. non-responding server) can be ignored
for a while.  From what I observe, once something fourohfoured, it's very
unlikely to get back.  Those who care enough to look up URLs in Internet
Archive should be able to get address from previous revision(s).  Most
people expect it to just work.  If http://archive.org/ provides stable and
permanent links, maybe we could use them directly for WWW: lines.

./danfe