Why are some archive.org Wayback Machine archivings listed in blue, while others are in green?

17 points · 6 comments · view on lemmy.world

6 Comments

geekwithsoul@piefed.social · 4 pts · 46d (5 replies)

If I remember correctly, the green ones show if a redirect is in place.

MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 42d (4 replies)

eh?

geekwithsoul@piefed.social · 1 pts · 42d (3 replies)

https://help.archive.org/help/using-the-wayback-machine/

Why are some of the dots on the calendar page different colors?

We color the dots, and links, associated with individual web captures, or multiple web captures, for a given day. Blue means the web server result code the crawler got for the related capture was a 2nn (good); Green means the crawlers got a status code 3nn (redirect); Orange means the crawler got a status code 4nn (client error), and Red means the crawler saw a 5nn (server error). Most of the time you will probably want to select the blue dots or links.

MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 42d (2 replies)

I'm not that tech savy, what would a Redirect be?

geekwithsoul@piefed.social · 2 pts · 41d (1 reply)

Oh, it's when you visit a website at a URL like www.example.com/oldpage/ and the server "intercepts" that call and gives you www.example.com/newpage/ instead, thus "redirecting" what you see in your browser. It could also be an entire domain too.

MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 41d

Aaah, yes, got it. Thanks! :)