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Poster: alexplank Date: May 27, 2005 11:06am
Forum: web Subject: archiving IA? IA's sneaky prevention?

It seems that IA does not want people to easily archive parts of the site? I don't think its very honest to prevent others from easily archiving stuff from the archive. The archive adds this segment to the end of an html file on the site:


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Poster: alexplank Date: May 27, 2005 11:10am
Forum: web Subject: Re: archiving IA? IA's sneaky prevention?

I attached a text file of the segment added to the end.

Attachment: sneakyarchive.txt

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Poster: Dan A. Date: May 27, 2005 1:17pm
Forum: web Subject: Re: archiving IA? IA's sneaky prevention?

There's no unsavory intent there. That Javascript just instructs browsers to rewrite the links in pages retrieved from the Wayback Machine. Without that rewriting, clicks on links in Wayback-retrieved pages would direct browsers to the live web instead of other Wayback-stored pages.