2018/6/4 15:54:34 -0700, marti...@google.com:
> TIL about Canonical link element and 301 redirects. You get to decide
> whether to follow the joint advice of Google and Microsoft
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_301#Search_engines
Sure, a 301 would be preferable, but it’s not always easy to a
The doclet already has code to generate redirect pages; given the short
time available for 11, I would prefer to go with what we have.
Also, I'm not sure that we can generate a 301 redirect from within a
static web page.
-- Jon
On 6/4/18 3:54 PM, Martin Buchholz wrote:
TIL about Canonical
TIL about Canonical link element and 301 redirects. You get to decide
whether to follow the joint advice of Google and Microsoft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_301#Search_engines
On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 3:45 PM, Jonathan Gibbons <
jonathan.gibb...@oracle.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 06/04/2018 03:39
On 06/04/2018 03:39 PM, mark.reinh...@oracle.com wrote:
I don't know much about
>search engines (!) but maybe there's metadata to tell search engines what
>the canonical URL is (or maybe simply redirects are interpreted that way).
Indeed, there is:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical_lin
2018/6/4 14:17:47 -0700, Martin Buchholz :
> On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 2:11 PM, jonathan.gibb...@oracle.com wrote:
>> ...
>>
>> So, what are our options.
>>
>> 0. Do nothing. People, and search engines, will learn to use a URL
>> ending in "api/" or "api/index.html"
>>
>> 1. Back out the change.
On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 2:11 PM, Jonathan Gibbons <
jonathan.gibb...@oracle.com> wrote:
> JDK-8196202 [1] introduced a change to the javadoc tool (and because of
> that, to the Java SE API documentation) such that frames are not generated
> by default.
>
> This has had a deliberate but somewhat une
JDK-8196202 [1] introduced a change to the javadoc tool (and because of
that, to the Java SE API documentation) such that frames are not
generated by default.
This has had a deliberate but somewhat unexpected consequence on the
Java SE API docs, of getting "404: Not found" on URLs that explici
