SIMON GABRIELOW Posted February 23 Posted February 23 I was glad to know the other smaller concertina related websites were recently saved [mentioned on C.net] recently. What of the 'Concertina archive'..? I see it is a good few years old and you get warnings of security [ not secured]. Myself, I have found it very nicely presented and easy to read. Will this also be somehow saved ? Maybe it could made into a PDF booklet on screen? Just a thought😊
Michael Eskin Posted February 23 Posted February 23 (edited) What is/was the URL? Are you talking about: http://www.concertina.com ? Edited February 23 by Michael Eskin
SIMON GABRIELOW Posted February 23 Author Posted February 23 Yes I think that is the site.. A Screen shot of it I attach here (is an image only to show the site)..
Michael Eskin Posted February 23 Posted February 23 Simon, I sent you a private message about an archive of the site.
David Barnert Posted February 23 Posted February 23 6 hours ago, SIMON GABRIELOW said: you get warnings of security That’s because it’s an http site, not https, so it is considerably less secure.
Michael Eskin Posted February 23 Posted February 23 Yes, a man-in-the-middle attacker could substitute an image of a 38-button Jeffries for a 40-button Wheatstone when you click on a link on the site causing mayhem. 🙂 3 5
Stephen Chambers Posted February 25 Posted February 25 It's a wonderful resource that ("PowerPoint" creator) Bob Gaskins gave us when he was interested in concertinas and John Hill Maccann. and an active member of C.net, but I see it hasn't been changed for 18 years now. It would be a great loss to the concertina community if anything befell it. 2
wes williams Posted February 25 Posted February 25 It's the usual story here. The software Bob used for the site was updated, but wasn't backward compatible, so Bob couldn't added anything new without reconstructing the whole site after 2007.
Michael Eskin Posted February 25 Posted February 25 (edited) I have a full (hopefully) web crawler scrape of the site including all the images and PDF files, if that's of any use... I've also played around briefly with using AI to write a Javascript utility that can take the whole archive and generate a Wordpress .xml description file that could potentially be used to move the whole thing to Wordpress. Not going to take it beyond the "what's possible" phase, but if there were some strong desire to get it into a modern web content management system, I'm sure it could be done. Edited February 25 by Michael Eskin 1
jkmelb Posted February 25 Posted February 25 (edited) The site has been captured by the Internet Archive several times. I tried a few pages and could also download PDFs, so I think we have a backup that's working. https://web.archive.org/web/20230801000000*/www.concertina.com Edited February 25 by jkmelb
Michael Eskin Posted February 26 Posted February 26 1 hour ago, jkmelb said: The site has been captured by the Internet Archive several times. I tried a few pages and could also download PDFs, so I think we have a backup that's working. https://web.archive.org/web/20230801000000*/www.concertina.com Yes, but I actually have all the pages, images, and PDFs now in one big .zip file. I'll keep it around in case it's ever needed. 1
SIMON GABRIELOW Posted February 26 Author Posted February 26 That's the only thing about tech..it's always changing and never static. So easily outdated🤔
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