Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: Junk in URLs and link-rot
Author: Jorn Barger Posted: 3/10/1999; 9:53:57 AM Topic: Unique vs. Generic URLs Msg #: 3892 (In response to 3835) Prev/Next: 3891 / 3893
So, maybe you could explain more what you have in mind for the web-based database, and maybe someone around here could build it.My first reply to this was pretty vague and hard to implement in the short term, but a simpler starting place would be just a database of webzine sites, with publication schedule, archives url, and search url for each.
If someone wants to write a Frontier script that can access such a database, I'll plug in the values I've figured out (various dailies, weeklies, and monthlies, mainly).
A Frontier user would indicate which sites were of interest (ie, 'subscribe'), and the script would wake up when a new issue was due.
Maybe the Scripts menu could have "Go to archive page" and "Go to search page" items, too, that recognised the currently-displayed site.
"Rearrange URL sub-elements into archived-page format" or "Extract persistent URL from local frame for bookmarking" are other possibilities, eventually.
And if the individual's local database can be updated via a shared remote database, then it could also offer newly added zines: "Would you like to subscribe to Brill's Content today?"
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