We need this administrative option as well.  Broken links are a nuisance to deal with.

I too have a great need for this at my company, for link hygiene as well as security

Hi guys

This is quite an issue for larger enterprises where there is a lot of content that is referenced in a lot of different places, can this please be revisited?

Our use case is knowledge management articles for which we want static links for many users (300+)

Thanks

Maree

+1 for adding this as an option!
John P reasoned it perfectly well, that is exactly our use case.

+1 for adding this as an option!

Can anyone confirm that this technique works under 5.6.6? I see a comment above that it is not functional in 5.6.5. I am on 5.6.6.

+1 for adding this as an option!

especially for Chinese users

+1 for adding this as an option!
This human readable URL thing is really a pain and very useless if you want to provide stable links. In our opinion one of the biggest disadvantages of Confluence...

It does not work on confluence5.6.5. Is that any way to do this?

+1 for adding this as an option. After all, even Wordpress has the ability to control how page URLs are rendered, and it's had that for ages.

+1 for release into a product release.

We require links in external systems and article names occasionally change.

I know snatching the tiny link from the info page does the same job, but it would be nice for users to be able to grab the URL without fear of it changing should the article's name change.

Understandable that it might not be set as default, but the option would be nice.

I'm not exactly sure why people would want this, but at least 1 person did and it was easy enough to do.

Nice work btw twong

We wouldn't seek to make this an option in the product, so for now the patch Tim provided is the best bet.

Patch is for Confluence 4.3.6.

Directions:
Shutdown Confluence
Create directory confluence-install/confluence/WEB-INF/classes/com/atlassian/confluence/util
Unzip contents into that directory.
Restart