1203410 - Page about custom properties inaccessible

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

What did you do?
================
1. I tried to rename the page Web/CSS/var-* to Web/CSS/--* , as the way to declare custom properties in CSS have been changed.

I used the regular page move feature with Web/CSS/--%2A as the new slug.

What happened?
==============
The results is this (Web/CSS$children):
{

    "locale": "en-US",
    "url": "/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/--%252A",
    "subpages": [ ],
    "slug": "Web/CSS/--%2A",
    "title": "Custom properties (--*)"

},

The page is inaccessible with any of the slug:
/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/--%252A
and
/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/--%2A

The redirect page leads to a 404. Following the link in the Revision dashboard leads to a 404.

What should have happened?
==========================
Coherence. No data loss. Allow both - and * in slugs (they are valid, the page move feature is limited to trusted users)

Is there anything else we should know?
======================================
Data is inaccessible right now.

Comment 1

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

I'm curious how you were able to change the slug to --* (or apparently --%2A or --%252A)? When I try on my local box, the page move UI forces the new slug to be --_.

If I create a *new* page with a --* slug, the new page UI changes the * to _, but I can over-write it in the slug input box and the page comes out fine:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/User:groovecoder/--*

So, it is/was a data corruption issue with the page move, and not a site-wide apache/htaccess/url issue.

That being the case, I updated the slug value of the document in the database to be '--*', and I updated the REDIRECT href to the new value. So, https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/var-* is properly redirecting now.

I'm going to call this RESOLVED:FIXED unless you find other page moves with * characters that break in the same way.

Comment 2

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

(In reply to Luke Crouch [:groovecoder] from comment #1)
> I'm curious how you were able to change the slug to --* (or apparently --%2A
> or --%252A)? When I try on my local box, the page move UI forces the new
> slug to be --_.

I put Web/CSS/--%2A in the page move slug field (as * was being converted to _). I didn't expected it to lead to a problem. 
> 
> That being the case, I updated the slug value of the document in the
> database to be '--*', and I updated the REDIRECT href to the new value. So,
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/var-* is properly
> redirecting now.
Thanks perfect!

> I'm going to call this RESOLVED:FIXED unless you find other page moves with
> * characters that break in the same way.

No, that's fine. That's really an unusual case, and I don't expect any more of these to happen (though we never know we specification bodies ;-) )

Many thanks!