From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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To: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
Cc: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Archive Message-Id links broken? |
Date: | 2009-08-31 02:47:25 |
Message-ID: | 20090831024725.GD18965@alvh.no-ip.org |
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Greg Stark escribió:
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 1:57 AM, Alvaro
> Herrera<alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> >> I'm mildly surprised to learn that this is unintentional... I use it
> >> semi-regularly as a way of getting a shorter and more legible URL for
> >> a message in the archives.
> >
> > I guess we could provide both. I vaguely remember someone asking how to
> > get this URL some time ago.
>
> The message-id url is far more useful generally. It's guaranteed not
> to change if we reprocess the mail archives -- even if we change mail
> archiving systems altogether. More importantly it can be used to track
> down the message even if the mail archives are down or inaccessible.
>
> The msg02010.php style url is what you get from our search engine or
> index listing. I didn't think it was hard to get these urls. How are
> you *not* getting one these urls in the first place?
The number-based URLs are generated by Mhonarc internally. It doesn't
generate the message-id-based URLs, and there's no way to make it emit
them, so they are generated by an external program that broke when I
changed the Mhonarc config some time ago after Tom complained that it
broke URLs that ended in message-ids in the message body.
This is all crap of course, which is why we want to replace Mhonarc with
a database-backed system.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc.
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