https://vanityurls.link/en/tags/link-states/Recent content in Link-States on vanityURLsHugoen-CAFri, 29 May 2026 21:58:37 -0400https://vanityurls.link/en/blog/link-lifecycle-states/Wed, 27 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://vanityurls.link/en/blog/link-lifecycle-states/<p>A short link usually outlives the moment that created it.</p> <p>Someone pastes it into a runbook. Someone prints it on a slide. Someone bookmarks it. Six months later, a destination changes and the tempting fix is to delete the row.</p> <p>Do not start there. In vanityURLs, lifecycle states make the operational decision explicit in <code>custom/v8s-links.txt</code>: redirect, expire, disable, hold for maintenance, or disappear as a true not-found.</p> <h2 id="redirect-states">Redirect States</h2> <p>Use <code>permanent</code> when the destination is stable. vanityURLs returns HTTP <code>301</code>, the permanent redirect status defined by <a href="https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9110">RFC 9110</a>.</p>