The following link is redirecting to a blog post about the SWHID:
https://softwareheritage.org/swhid
We would like to use this link as a uri for a PropertyID with schema.org or codemeta.json.
It might be already used and can break things, even thought for persistence, it would be better to redirect to a persistent location/content.
@anlambert can you check the logs to see if it is used?
| Status | Assigned | Task | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Migrated | gitlab-migration | T2527 Review codemeta.json export from HAL | ||
| Migrated | gitlab-migration | T2559 Modify redirection on https://softwareheritage.org/swhid |
I've no specific advice here, as I wasn't aware that shorturl/SLUG existed, so I don't know where it might be used.
As a general comment, using such a "memorable" shorturl for a blog post doesn't seem like a good idea, as blog posts age pretty quickly.
So I'm in favor of removing it, but don't know how to evaluate the impact of doing so.
(For what is worth: I don't think that using it as a URI in the context you need it in is incompatible with having it being a valid URL pointing to something else, but I agree it would be weird, because some people will load it in their browsers for trying it out.)
Redirection should be to https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/swh-model/persistent-identifiers.html
@anlambert: are you able to modify a website redirection?
The redirection for this url: https://softwareheritage.org/swhid
should be: https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/swh-model/persistent-identifiers.html
Done.
16:35 $ curl -I https://www.softwareheritage.org/swhid HTTP/2 301 date: Fri, 09 Dec 2022 15:53:24 GMT server: Apache x-powered-by: PHP/8.1.0 expires: Fri, 09 Dec 2022 16:53:24 GMT cache-control: max-age=3600 x-redirect-by: redirection location: https://docs.softwareheritage.org/devel/swh-model/persistent-identifiers.html strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000 content-length: 0 content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 via: 1.1 varnish (Varnish/6.3), 1.1 varnish (Varnish/6.3) x-cache-hits: 0 x-cache: MISS age: 0