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6:24 AM

Would this be a suitable question for Web Applications: Which URL structure should I use when archiving questions in the Wayback Machine?

Q: Which URL structure should I use when archiving questions in the Wayback Machine?

There are several URLs one could use to get to a question. For example: https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/124409/can-stocks-trade-at-negative-prices https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/124409/ https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/124409 https://money.stackexchange.com/q/124409...

All of those links redirect to the same location on our site. So it really depends on how the Wayback Machine handles redirects. If it just records that it hit a redirect and doesn't follow, then all but the final URL would be useless. If it follows the redirect and archives the resulting page, then which one you use doesn't matter. That is a question for the Wayback Machine. — animuson ♦ 4 hours ago

Unrelated to that - are the tags wayback-machine and archive.org actually different? Should they be synonyms?

The tag archive.org has a tag-excerpt and tag-wiki which say that this tag is for the questions about Wayback Machine.

Martin Sleziak

7:10 AM

The question I linked above was answered on Meta Stack Exchange.

A: Which URL structure should I use when archiving questions in the Wayback Machine?

It doesn't matter; the Wayback Machine will always follow the redirects and end up at the 'canonical URL', the first one: https://money.stackexchange.com/questions/124409/can-stocks-trade-at-negative-prices. This is what happens when you archive https://money.stackexchange.com/q/124409: This doe...