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October 30

Why isn't this link working?

Guide to the Chandler Davidson Voting Rights papers, 1961-2006 MS 528

Please recommend some good online tools for examining dead links. Viriditas (talk) 23:06, 30 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Update: taking a wild guess, I think it's supposed to redirect to this link, but doesn't. Viriditas (talk) 23:12, 30 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

If you want to see the earlier content of a now broken link whose content was a presumably static record, rather than have a working new link, you may have the luck that the page has been archived by the Wayback Machine. Prepend https://web.archive.org/*/ to the broken url – in this case resulting in https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ricewrc/00333/00333-P.html – and try that. Indeed, the page has been archived, the earliest snapshot being of 16 May 2021, located at https://web.archive.org/web/20210516074151/https://legacy.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ricewrc/00333/00333-P.html. The other broken link appears to have been about the Chandler Davidson Texas Politics research collection kept at the Woodson Research Center of Rice University.

By searching Google for "Chandler Davidson Voting Rights papers" and clicking on promising links I found the live url http://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/resources/454. --Lambiam 08:39, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Did you see the error message when you click on the link? That’s what my query was about. I’ve never seen that error message before. What is causing it? Viriditas (talk) 20:47, 31 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The text of the error message depends on the browser used, but there appears to be a redirect loop. --Lambiam 01:48, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. How do I get the web admin to fix it? It should redirect to my updated link up above, correct? Viriditas (talk) 02:13, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I suppose the page should (directly or indirectly) redirect to http://archives.library.rice.edu/repositories/2/resources/454. You could try mailing to woodson@rice.edu. --Lambiam 09:46, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Viriditas (talk) 21:13, 1 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]