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Do we have robust forward links or is this a burden only for back links?

• gumby 6y ago
  No, we get 404s from broken forward links, either because the target went away, or because of a typo in the link. I can link to any page I like without having to talk to or get permission from anyone at all. While the person who manages the target of that link can decide on their own how to respond when the link is dereferenced. Allowing this to happen, and making 404 perfectly acceptable was, in retrospect, an excellent idea.
  • 082349872349872 6y ago
    Are there any screen-sharing VNC-like things that allow jumping via links from one server to another (the way that HTML links allow jumping from one document to another)? I'm sure it'd be a security/usability nightmare, but wonder if it might be an interesting nightmare.
    • gumby 6y ago
      Given that dereferencing a URI can result in program execution rather than simple transmission of a document (or, if you prefer, you can ssh to a host and then ssh thither) I’d say yes. A host is a pretty lightweight concept these days (so lightweight and often ephemeral that we don’t use the term much and rarely even give them names). CL/DM was written in the mainframe era.
      • 082349872349872 6y ago
        Yeah, as for program execution, I was specifically thinking of VNC servers that are the equivalent of CGI in that they produce "displays" that never occurred in any framebuffer. Hyperlinks would allow networks of this kind of virtual VNC...