Early June 2019, Mark Graham asked me to share a URL that fails saving in the WayBack machine.
Below is a start of a list, so I can track when reported, and when they could become archived.
Note that not being able to archive URLs can be both a problem of the WayBack machine and of the page/site being archived.
So this document is absolutely not about blame, just a means to assist the WayBack machine and sites to do better archiving.
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Archival save: https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.rdw.nl/particulier/voertuigen/auto/het-kentekenbewijs/nieuwe-tenaamstellingscode-aanvragen
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Error:
This url is not available on the live web or can not be archived.
Want to search for all archived pages under https://www.rdw.nl/particulier/voertuigen/auto/het-kentekenbewijs/ ?
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Error when following the archived pages link https://web.archive.org/web/form-submit.jsp?type=prefixquery&url=https://www.rdw.nl/particulier/voertuigen/auto/het-kentekenbewijs/:
The Wayback Machine has not archived that URL.
This page is not available on the web
because of server error
Click here to search for all archived pages under http://form-submit.jsp/.
- Via: https://www.google.com/search?q=0x8007007B
- URL: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3166553/error-0x8007232b-or-0x8007007b-occurs-when-you-try-to-activate-windows
- Failed save: https://web.archive.org/web/20190614135823/https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3166553/error-0x8007232b-or-0x8007007b-occurs-when-you-try-to-activate-windows
- Error (in the saved URL):
Please enable cookies and refresh the page
- Remarks:
- in an anonymous Chrome tab without cookies however, the page loads fine: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/3166553/error-0x8007232b-or-0x8007007b-occurs-when-you-try-to-activate-windows
- Google Search indexes the URL fine, but the Google Chache fails too: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/en-us/search?q=cache:VBtqYhuZDqEJ:https:%2F%2Fsupport.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fhelp%2F3166553%2Ferror-0x8007232b-or-0x8007007b-occurs-when-you-try-to-activate-windows%20&cd=11&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=nl
- Also fails to archive in Archive.is: https://archive.is/4d4oy
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Archived URL after previous URL tried to auto-refresh: https://web.archive.org/web/20190614154242/src This likely is BitBucket trying to be "smart", but not realising the importance of archival. (this used to work fine in the past)
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Archive.is URL used to be fine in the past too, but now errors: https://archive.is/?run=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fbitbucket.org%2Fjeroenp%2Fwiert.me%2Fsrc%2Ftip%2FNative%2FDelphi%2FApps%2FConsole%2FHiddenExecuteConsoleProject%2F which is usually a site trying to circumvent archival:
status type size url 0 GET https://bitbucket.org/jeroenp/wiert.me/src/tip/Native/Delphi/Apps/Console/HiddenExecuteConsoleProject/
- URL: https://vng.nl/onderwerpenindex/dienstverlening-en-informatiebeleid/dienstverlening-aan-inwoners-en-ondernemers/nieuws/zijn-uw-websites-digitaal-toegankelijk-proof
- Archival save: https://web.archive.org/save/https://vng.nl/onderwerpenindex/dienstverlening-en-informatiebeleid/dienstverlening-aan-inwoners-en-ondernemers/nieuws/zijn-uw-websites-digitaal-toegankelijk-proof
- Archive.is is OK: https://archive.is/GBTsk
- URL: https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stb-2017-256.html
- Archival save: https://web.archive.org/save/https://zoek.officielebekendmakingen.nl/stb-2017-256.html
- Archive.is is OK: https://archive.is/tLsMy
- URL: https://www.digitoegankelijk.nl/beleid/wet-en-regelgeving
- Archival save: https://web.archive.org/save/https://www.digitoegankelijk.nl/beleid/wet-en-regelgeving
- Archive.is is OK: https://archive.is/5aNnT
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Archival URL gets rewritten from https://web.archive.org/web/20190615112215/https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/awesome-cookie-manager/hcpidejphgpcgfnpiehkcckkkemgneif?hl=en to https://web.archive.org/web20190615112215/http://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions?hl=en then fails:
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Archive.is is OK: https://archive.is/6dWDy
- URL: https://twitter.com/packtfreebook
- Archival failed with an EROROR 400: https://web.archive.org/save/https://twitter.com/packtfreebook
Later that day, the error went away. Not sure what happened, or what rectified it.
- URL: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1014953
- Archived URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20190622190431/https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1014953
- Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/4Oabo is empty too
- Beta archived URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20190622191733/https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1014953 keeps refresshing
The archived URL shows an empty page.
Same for this one:
- URL: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2148321?lang=en_US#q=2148321
- Archived URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20190623095743/https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2148321?lang=en_US
- Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/G9eB9
- URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/vmware/comments/50zt10/deploy_ovf_in_multiple_datastores/
- Rewritten archived URL: https://www.reddit.com/web/20190715134037/https://www.reddit.com/r/vmware/comments/50zt10/deploy_ovf_in_multiple_datastores/
- Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/yqBl0
- URL: https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/966823/geforce-drivers/displayport-autodetect-override-view-system-topology-on-desktop-cards/post/5190822/#5190822
- Archived URL 1: https://web.archive.org/web/20190722072648/https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/966823/geforce-drivers/displayport-autodetect-override-view-system-topology-on-desktop-cards/post/5190822/#5190822
- Archived URL 2: https://web.archive.org/web/20190722073905/https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/966823/geforce-drivers/displayport-autodetect-override-view-system-topology-on-desktop-cards/post/5190822/#5190822
- Archive.is URL: https://archive.is/FMKoW
Fails both in wayback machine and Archive.org:
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Archived URL 1 fails while displaying with a timeline and a blank content
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Archived URL fails while displaying with a constantly refreshing page
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Archive.is fails while saving with:
Error: Network error. status type size url 0 GET https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/966823/geforce-drivers/displayport-autodetect-override-view-system-topology-on-desktop-cards/post/5190822/