For many years Brill's digital resources, though paywalled, have returned to unauthenticated requests a useful summary and citation for each discrete article or entry (in encyclopedic works and corpora). An exemplary practice in my view.
This morning, all those URIs are redirecting to the Brill home page. I dearly hope this is a temporary misconfiguration. Otherwise, they've single-handedly borked thousands of reference links in the Pleiades gazetteer (and elsewhere).
And, the redirection occurs even if you are coming from within a subscribing IP range. The site acknowledges your connecting from a subscribed institution, but still performs the redirect on the specific URIs.
This morning, all those URIs are redirecting to the Brill home page, using the 301 Moved Permanently HTTP response header.
Is this a temporary outage or misconfiguration? I dearly hope so, otherwise, you've broken hundreds of thousands (or more) links from digital reference works, syllabuses, and other scholarly content across the web, including many thousands in the Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places (https://pleiades.stoa.org), for which I am the managing editor.
I would be grateful for a timely response and explanation of this change. Thank you.
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