Short links for URLs in the book
Problem: link rot
Fluent Python, Second Edition has more than 1000 links to external resources. Inevitably, some of those links will rot as time passes. But I can’t change the URLs in the print book…
Solution: indirection
I replaced almost all URLs in the book with shortened versions that
go through the fpy.li site which I control. The site has an
.htaccess file with temporary redirects.
When I find out a link is stale, I can thange the redirect in
.htaccess to a new target, which may be a link to copy in
the Internet Archive’s Wayback
Machine o the link in the book is back in service through the
updated redirect.
Help wanted
Please report broken links as bugs in the FPY.LI.htaccess file. Also, feel
free to send pull requests with fixes to that file. When I accept a PR,
I will redeploy it to fpy.li/.htaccess.
Details
Almost all URLs in the book are replaced with shortened versions like
http://fpy.li/1-3—for
chapter 1, link #3.
There are also custom short URLs like https://fpy.li/code which
redirects to the example code repository. I used custom short URLs for
URLs with 3 or more mentions, or links to PEPs.
Exceptions:
- URLs with
oreillyin them are unchanged; fluentpython.comURL (with no path) is unchanged;
The FPY.LI.htaccess is deployed at the root folder in
http://fpy.li.