[Python-Dev] www.python.org/doc and docs.python.org hotfixed

[engelbert gruber]

On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:49 PM, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Long term, remapping even the deep links to the appropriate part of the
> new docs should hopefully be possible.
>
> For the search engine issue, is there any way we can tell robots to
> ignore the rewrite rules so they see the broken links? (although even
> that may not be ideal, since what we really want is to tell the robot
> the link is broken, and provide the new alternative)

wouldnt that be a situation to use hTTP 301/permanently moved headers

all the best