System Administration

Expiration Date

Google thinks the site I mentioned yesterday is the definitive Stanley Kubrick site.

Over the last month, in preparation for these changes, we expired the sites of Prodigy Classic members who are no longer Prodigy Internet members. Instead of removing the sites n number of days after the member's account was terminated, no maintainance had been performed — for quite some time. Now we have a mass of files not found, that should more appropriately be just plain gone.

The requested resource is no longer available at the server and no forwarding address is known. This condition is expected to be considered permanent. Clients with link editing capabilities SHOULD delete references to the Request-URI after user approval. If the server does not know, or has no facility to determine, whether or not the condition is permanent, the status code 404 (Not Found) SHOULD be used instead. This response is cacheable unless indicated otherwise.

The 410 response is primarily intended to assist the task of web maintenance by notifying the recipient that the resource is intentionally unavailable and that the server owners desire that remote links to that resource be removed. [...]

Emphasis above is mine. If I figure out how to distinguish between the sites we removed and files that are just missing, then I will.

9:55:04 AM # Google It!
categories: PWP, System Administration