Bug 20428 - proto.pdf file on www.x.org out of date
Summary: proto.pdf file on www.x.org out of date
Status: RESOLVED MOVED
Alias: None
Product: XStandards
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Protocol (show other bugs)
Version: X11R6.6
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Jim Gettys
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
URL: http://www.x.org/docs/XProtocol/proto...
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Reported: 2009-03-02 09:03 UTC by Markus Kuhn
Modified: 2019-02-21 10:26 UTC (History)
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Description Markus Kuhn 2009-03-02 09:03:21 UTC
The URL

  http://www.x.org/docs/XProtocol/proto.pdf

still contains the old "Release 6.7" version of the "XWindow System Protocol" specification, however this is out of date as there have been substantial changes to Appendix A (keysyms) in the subsequent Release 6.9/7.0.

Please keep the above URL automatically updated to the latest released version of  the X11 specification.
Comment 1 Tollef Fog Heen 2010-02-09 13:46:33 UTC
Adding missing QA contact
Comment 2 Alan Coopersmith 2010-02-09 14:04:48 UTC
A newer version has been posted at:
   http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/index.html
but we do need to update the copies on www.x.org/docs
Comment 3 Markus Kuhn 2010-02-12 06:35:23 UTC
Suggestion: assuming you use Apache, add to http://www.x.org/docs/.htaccess the lines

  Redirect temp /docs/XProtocol/ http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/x11proto/
  etc.

and to 

  http://www.x.org/releases/.htaccess

the single line

  Redirect temp /releases/current/ http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/

which will need updating at each release. This way, the old links will continue to link to the latest version, and people can in future easily link to e.g.

  http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/x11proto/proto.pdf

to get

  http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/x11proto/proto.html

or whatever the latest version is. (Using a "temporary" HTTP redirect is important here, because this way a linkchecker won't complain that our web pages contain out of date URLs if it finds this redirect.)
And then provide an index page that uses the "/releases/current/" link, such that people can easily copy out release-independent URLs.

Note: I see that you do already have apparently an (out of date!) symlink from

  http://www.x.org/releases/current/

to

  http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.4/

Symlinks are a bad idea on the web as they create two URLs for the same page in search engines. Better use HTTP redirects to achieve the same effect!
Comment 4 GitLab Migration User 2019-02-21 10:26:42 UTC
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