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Bug 322973 - Dead web links to help.eclipse.org
Summary: Dead web links to help.eclipse.org
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Community
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: Website (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: phoenix.ui CLA
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Reported: 2010-08-18 01:06 EDT by Jon Rowlands CLA
Modified: 2010-08-20 15:32 EDT (History)
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Description Jon Rowlands CLA 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 CLA 2010-08-20 09:36:25 EDT 
I've added redirects to point old URLs to the Helios equivalents.
Comment 2 Jon Rowlands CLA 2010-08-20 15:32:22 EDT 
Verified and closed. Very much appreciate the quick action.