Broken or Redirected Links in free-programming-books.md

[kadhirash]

A list of some of the broken or redirected links I came to find:

System Info:

• macOS Catalina: Version 10.15.7

• Tested on Brave, Firefox, and Chrome browsers

• School of Data Handbook (http://schoolofdata.org/handbook/) -> 503 error

  • Broken
  • Found under Language Agnostic, Datamining
  • Works fine on Chrome for me, however.

• Exploring CQRS and Event Sourcing (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj554200.aspx) -> 403 error

  • Redirected to (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/msp-n-p/jj554200(v=pandp.10) which actually leads to a download page at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34774
  • Found under Language Agnostic, Software Architecture

• Java Programming (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Programming/) -> 404 error

  • Broken
  • The correct link should be: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Java_Programming (no trailing slash at the end)
  • Found under Java

[eshellman]

school of data does a lot of "inspecting browser"!

[davorpa]

school of data does a lot of "inspecting browser"!

Me too in Chrome. Even cleaning cookies or IP change. In Edge/Firefox ok.

• Broken

• Found under Language Agnostic, Datamining

• Works fine on Chrome for me, however.

• Exploring CQRS and Event Sourcing (https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj554200.aspx) -> 403 error

  • Redirected to (https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/msp-n-p/jj554200(v=pandp.10) which actually leads to a download page at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34774
  • Found under Language Agnostic, Software Architecture

Its not mantained anymore. I think it could be fixed only removing redirection. Also, it has downloadable content like exercises too. Then, maybe better link to page instead download directly (it's more general)

BR

[eshellman]

thanks!