Following links in extraction mode leads to live web

[patshiu]

Problem:

When extracting a page from a public archive, following a link should take users to the closest available recording of the target page in public archives. However, currently, following links more than 1 degree of separation from the original target of extraction invariably leads to the live web page instead.

The specific links I used

LEFT: Webrecorder in Extraction Mode | RIGHT: Following same links on Internet Archive

Original target of extraction: https://web.archive.org/web/20030219054634/http://www.salon.com:80/tech/feature/2002/03/01/netochka/index1.html

First link clicked — European Net arts list Syndicate: https://web.archive.org/web/20030221061935/http://anart.no:80/~syndicate/

Second link clicked — do birds [shakeZkknut] ? : https://web.archive.org/web/20030405210402/http://anart.no:80/~syndicate/KKnut/index.html On the left is the live page, even though the extraction widget still says "2003".

[ikreymer]

This has to do with the slash redirect not being propagated, the IA page redirects from http://anart.no:80/~syndicate -> http://anart.no:80/~syndicate/ but that is not reflected in the extraction.

Thus, it tries to extract http://anart.no:80/KKnut/index.html which is not archived anywhere, instead of http://anart.no:80/~syndicate/KKnut/index.html resulting in a live 404.