Re: [Archive-access-discuss] twitter redirects in Wayback URL queries

[Bradley T. <br...@ar...>]

We're currently looking into some options for this, using a combination of:

1) generic server side Javascript rewriting
2) site-host-path-date specific custom rules
3) additional client side javascript insertion

The idea is that we're trying to replace all occurrences of things like 
"window.location.replace()" with "Wayback_window_location_replace()".

For most sites, we insert a new javascript function into the page, 
called Wayback_window_location_replace() which inspects the arguments, 
ensures they have been rewritten correctly as archival URLs (prepending 
the correct archival url prefix if not) and then calls the real 
window.location.replace().

For a small number of configured sites, we'll insert a specialized 
javascript implementation of "Wayback_window_location_replace". In the 
case of twitter.com, it will be a no-op - leaving the browser on the 
current page (/BARACKOBAMA).

This is highly experimental, but we have had some preliminary successes 
with this combination, and hope to be starting production testing in the 
next few weeks.

We also hope to use this framework to assist in replay of other popular 
and problematic sites.

I'll keep the list posted with the progress.

Brad


On 6/17/11 6:00 PM, Gerard Suades i Méndez wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Wayback redirects queries on new twitter's accounts URL based on "#!" 
> to twitter.com domain.
>
> Example:
> http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://twitter.com/BARACKOBAMA
>
> vs
>
> http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://twitter.com/#!/BARACKOBAMA 
> <http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://twitter.com/#%21/BARACKOBAMA>
>
> Any idea on how this could be handled?
>
> Best regards,
> -- Gerard
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