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I am currently replacing links to UN Security Council Resolutions with undocs.org links. Why?
* undocs.org links have a simple syntax
* Links that looks like the following (= almost all of the links) are dead links: http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/055/08/IMG/NR005508.pdf?OpenElement
* They may be fixed like so: https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/RESOLUTION/GEN/NR0/055/08/IMG/NR005508.pdf?OpenElement, but their underlying software seems to require an active session to load documents, so the first time a user opens a document at their site, it will fail to load. Which is a serious deficiency.
* Alternatively, these links can be used: http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/RES/71(1949), but that exposes the underlying asp.net user interface to the user, and may suddenly stop working, unless the administrators take special, painstaking precautions when they upgrade the backend software to use something more sensible.
* Finally the new official UNSCR documents use undocs.org links, see for example this document: http://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/RES/2157(2014). undocs.org is therefore used internally in the UN, and can be expected to work for ages.
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