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Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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Post by Evgeny »

mtowle wrote: post #2

The top python link, which should direct to http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ instead directs to http://www.crummy.com/software/beautifulsoup/ --which causes crummy.com to throw a 404 error at you.

You learn something every day. I was sure URLs are not case sensitive until now.

While domain names are not case-sensitive, the rest of the URL might be. In our example, this would be everything that follows “.com” as in wisegeek.com/are-urls-case-sensitive.htm.

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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Post by wahnfrieden »

Evgeny wrote: post #21
mtowle wrote: post #2

The top python link, which should direct to http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ instead directs to http://www.crummy.com/software/beautifulsoup/ --which causes crummy.com to throw a 404 error at you.

You learn something every day. I was sure URLs are not case sensitive until now. While domain names are not case-sensitive, the rest of the URL might be. In our example, this would be everything that follows “.com” as in wisegeek.com/are-urls-case-sensitive.htm.

Think about it, the host server gets the path string raw, it's up to it how to interpret it.

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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Post by Encosia »

Nice work.

This would take some work (more on the server's part than yours), but I think it would be more accurate if you tested the links for 301 redirects and consolidated the results accordingly. For example, in the ASP.NET tag one of my pages has 112 links to an older URL (http://encosia.com/2008/05/29/using-jquery-to-directly-call-...) that 301 redirects to a newer URL (http://encosia.com/using-jquery-to-directly-call-aspnet-ajax...) which has 129 links itself. It would be interesting to see only the latter URL show up in the list with 241 links.

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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Post by Encosia »

Evgeny wrote: post #21
mtowle wrote: post #2

The top python link, which should direct to http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ instead directs to http://www.crummy.com/software/beautifulsoup/ --which causes crummy.com to throw a 404 error at you.

You learn something every day. I was sure URLs are not case sensitive until now. While domain names are not case-sensitive, the rest of the URL might be. In our example, this would be everything that follows “.com” as in wisegeek.com/are-urls-case-sensitive.htm.

Somewhat related, it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that browsers treat assets with different URL casing as different assets for purposes of caching. Three image elements that reference Foo.jpg, foo,jpg, and foo.JPG all require a separate request and space in the cache, even if the web server you're using is case-insensitive and all three URLs resolve to the same image.

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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Post by ars »

Encosia wrote: post #26
Evgeny wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You learn something every day. I was sure URLs are not case sensitive until now. While domain names are not case-sensitive, the rest of the URL might be. In our example, this would be everything that follows “.com” as in wisegeek.com/are-urls-case-sensitive.htm.

Somewhat related, it took me an embarrassingly long time to realize that browsers treat assets with different URL casing as different assets for purposes of caching. Three image elements that reference Foo.jpg, foo,jpg, and foo.JPG all require a separate request and space in the cache, even if the web server you're using is case-insensitive and all three URLs resolve to the same image.

I always add:

    CheckSpelling off
To my dev (but not production) server so that I catch things like that. This won't help with a case insensitive web server though.

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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Post by taternuts »

Very cool I like it! I like that it adds whatever tag you clicked on to the top, but maybe you should save that between sessions. Also, a lot of the more popular languages will reflect what everyone here has already seen and worked with - which is cool because it does what you advertise, but the usefulness is somewhat limited for us folk. It would be cool to have a year/month/week filter to see what has been linked to the most lately (I just saw that was suggested earlier). Things like node would benefit from that since it's growing so fast, but everyone knows about express. A simple thing to enable a bit more usefulness would be to link to the actual Stack Overflow posts so we can look at the comments. Cool stuff though!

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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Post by ChrisClark »

The most popular link for Android answers is AsyncTask. It makes sense, one of the biggest complaint about Android is that it isn't always perfectly smooth and people notice the jerkiness in the UI. I would say a large majority of the time it is because an Android app developer is running slow code on the UI thread instead of doing it correctly.

Re: The most popular links posted by developers to Stack Overflow

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Post by captaincrowbar »

Looking at the results for C++, it looks like the text santizing you're doing on link titles is losing the "++". All the titles seem to have C instead of C++, e.g. "Boost C Libraries" should be "Boost C++ Libraries". You're also losing the # in C# and the dot in .NET, and probably others.
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