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= URLs prone to decay =
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* Things which are dynamically generated and feed a content identifier as a parameter to some script/CMS/whatever
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* Filetype or platform specific addressing: things which end in .asp, .cfm, .php, .pl, .cgi (the last two seeming slightly more stable, probably due to usage patterns)
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** .htm, .html where replaced by dynamically generated content
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** index.html or a nonstandard directory index instead of /
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** things which live in /cgi-bin
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* Detailed but essentially subjective and arbitrary hierarchies, especially when composed of abbreviations
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* Hierarchies generally - the more nested, the more fragile a given resource will be
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* Most meaningless content id strings
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* URLs dependent on user ids, especially those which expire (any paid account, students, employees)
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* anything with case-sensitivity.
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= stuff =
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* [http://informationr.net/ir/9-2/paper174.html A longitudinal study of Web pages continued: a consideration of document persistence] - Nice title, but it's a tiny sample.
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* [http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blog/welldesignedurlsarebeautiful.aspx well designed URLs are beautiful] - unfortunately the URL is followed by an ".aspx" extension...
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