 | To deal with broken links, I propose that URLs have a date field that
describes when the URL was created, and that web servers keep track of
the history of their filesystems (the publicly accessible part of it).
When a request comes in, the server can look at the history to map the
location of the file when the URL was created to its current location,
and send the file.
For instance, if a link to /foo.html on a server example.com was
created on 10 jan 2005, the URL might be:
http://example.com/foo.html[10-jan-2005]
(I haven't given much thought to the syntax yet)
If the resource moves to /bar.html on 1 feb 2005 and the server
records this, the old URL would still work because the server knows
that what is now /bar.html was /foo.html on 10 jan 2005.
What do you think?
-Kartik
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