What does Permalink link do?

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What is the "Permalink" link at the bottom of messages? What does it do?

Posted 26-Jun-13 10:48am

Cornelius Henning

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 26-Jun-13 17:07pm

You don't really need to ask such questions. Finding an answer on the Web would give you more accurate results, faster.
—SA

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According to wikipedia

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A permalink (portmanteau of permanent link) is a URL that points to a specific blog or forum entry after it has passed from the front page to the archives. Because a permalink remains unchanged indefinitely, it is less susceptible to link rot.

So I think its the same concept here as well.

Posted 26-Jun-13 11:03am

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-26T11:04:00

Solution 3

When the site content is dynamic, you still can reference its URLs, but they may disappear and become invalid in future. A permalink is the URI which is guaranteed to point to the same logical resource any time later, even if the site and this resource itself changes.

For more exact explanation and more detail, please see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permalink[^].

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Posted 26-Jun-13 11:04am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 26-Jun-13 11:06am

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Ron Beyer 26-Jun-13 18:22pm

I think he means the "permalink" button at the bottom of posts (like your answer) next to the Improve Solution link. I've clicked this and I cannot for the life of me see where it goes or what it does...

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 26-Jun-13 19:14pm

It actually does what it meant to do. You can get to the page with, say, question URL or some other post's URI. You will see the same page content from different URIs. But if you click on permalink, it will give you the permanent link to the exact post. If, say, some other post is removed from the page, but this link is not, it will still work and point to the correct location on the page (via "#"). Try it and you will see.
—SA