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Bug 322973

Summary:	Dead web links to help.eclipse.org
Product:	Community	Reporter:	Jon Rowlands <rowlands>
Component:	Website	Assignee:	phoenix.ui <phoenix.ui-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	Ed.Merks, wayne.beaton
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Jon Rowlands

2010-08-18 01:06:38 EDT

A lot of existing links to content on help.eclipse.org are
now dead, for example because they point to API docs
from Eclipse 3.2. This includes much of the content
discovered by a google search, as well as some content
on eclipse.org itself.

For example, google "ITextContentDescriber".

Currently, dead links redirecto to a generic top-level
page, http://www.eclipse.org/documentation/ . While
this page includes a search box, it uses google itself,
so its own results have the same problem.

Can you please arrange for google to reindex
help.eclipse.org, and/or improve the 404 handling so
that stale links redirect directly to appropriate
current content?

Comment 1 Denis Roy

2010-08-20 09:36:25 EDT

I've added redirects to point old URLs to the Helios equivalents.

Comment 2 Jon Rowlands

2010-08-20 15:32:22 EDT

Verified and closed. Very much appreciate the quick action.