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HTML Help Workshop no longer available from Microsoft

super-structure opened this issue · 1 comments

super-structure commented

Expected Behavior

Link to prerequisite software should be up-to-date.

Actual Behavior

The link to download Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop program leads to a page for that program at learn.microsoft.com. However, the link to download the program gives a 404 error (for either the English or Japanese versions). The page itself was last updated almost 6 years ago.

Possible Solution

If there is a current (and hopefully stable) link to download the HTML Help Workshop, this would be preferable. This Q&A correctly points out that the installer is still available at archive.org. So this may be an alternative. Also, Divcom software has a download link on the HelpSmith program downloads page, as well.

Another response states that they have the installer in a GitHub repo, but there may be some license issues involved with this solution.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. Open the Prerequisite software topic in the DITA-OT docs.
  2. Click the link to msdn.microsoft.com. Page redirects to learn.microsoft.com.
  3. Click the link to Download Htmlhelp.exe. 404 page is given.

Copy of the error message, log file or stack trace

Target page: https://download.microsoft.com/download/0/A/9/0A939EF6-E31C-430F-A3DF-DFAE7960D564/htmlhelp.exe

Environment

Web browser.

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infotexture commented

@super-structure 🙏 Thanks for the pointers Jason. Link rot sucks. 😞

Looks like Redmond missed the memo that Cool URIs don't change.

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