Scripting News: Sunday, June 25, 2023

Sunday, June 25, 2023

The archive.org puzzle appears to have been solved. There are at least two URLs you can use to access the RSS 2.0 spec on the Harvard website. When I looked up the one with the apparent problem, it was one they only started tracking in 2016? I don't know. Kye Fox on Bluesky found an archive of the spec that is available on archive.org starting on July 22, 2003. Here's the archive for this blog for July 2003 (the actual page, not on archive.org). This is the URL we were using at that time. It hadn't been moved to cyber.law.harvard.edu yet. So we have found a snapshot of the spec from 2003. And it was my mistake, not archive.org's. The statement that it had been at the same address for all 20+ years was not true. I am sorry for my mistake, and thanks to archive.org for doing such a good job of maintaining the record of this document and all the rest that they do. 😄#

Last update: Sunday June 25, 2023; 9:20 AM EDT.

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