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(I searched on the topic of broken forums links but didn't find the answer I was after.)

With the new Saloon and domain, some links to old forums posts aren't working. For example, many (or all) of the links from Junilu Lacar's OOCalculator threads listing currently just lead to an Apache Tomcat error page, whining about "The requested resource (/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi) is not available."

I can Google around and find most of the old pages I'm looking for this time, but that's not the point.

Is this a known issue? Is this issue likely to be resolved? Is there a fancy URI fiddling trick to create the new URI from the old URI?

Gracias.
 
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Works for me. Is it possible for you to try on a different machine?
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To clarify, does it work for you to follow the first link I posted to the OOCalculator listing, and then to follow one of the links from that page to another thread of the OOCalculator?

The screen shot you posted is just of the first page. Getting to the first page isn't the problem. The problem is following the links from that page.

(I'll try on another machine, but...)

Update: I tried from three machines (Win 7, Win XP, Ubuntu) with two different browsers (Firefox 4, Chrome), and the same thing happened from all of them.
 
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Ah! You meant the links from inside the topic.
Yes. Doesn't work for me too. Thanks for bringing this up.
 
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Those links are just bad links, flat out. The text of the link you've shown above is:

http://www.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=9&t=001079&p=2

I am surprised that this would ever have worked. It's a little bit before my time, though, so perhaps things were different back then. Anyway, the correct link is

https://coderanch.com/t/97611/patterns/OO-Calculator-Tutorial

And indeed, that works fine. I fixed the first dozen or so links in that thread, but sorry, I don't have the patience to do all of them right now.
 
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Ah. The fix is to replace www with saloon. Thank you.

Google Search for "http://www.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi"

http://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.javaranch.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fubb%2Fultimatebb.cgi%22

About 5,510 results

Google Search for site:coderanch.com "http://www.javaranch.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi"

http://www.google.com/search?btnG=1&pws=0&q=site:coderanch.com+%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.javaranch.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fubb%2Fultimatebb.cgi%22

About 2,720 results

Maybe a solution is in order.
 
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