Closed Bug 1260459 Opened 8 years ago Closed 3 years ago

DLC Sync: Handle permanent redirects (HTTP 301)

Categories

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox for Android Graveyard
Component:
General
Platform:
All
Android
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: sebastian, Unassigned)

References

Details

Follow-up from bug 1201059:

> I can't imagine it would handle 301 correctly. And we have discovered during
> service decommissionings that we'd really like to handle permanent redirects.
> Can we do so here?

My first intention was to manually handle the redirects and from there on just use the new URL. However I am a bit afraid of all those public WiFi redirectors. We should avoid locking ourselves out.
We have completed our launch of our new Firefox on Android. The development of the new versions use GitHub for issue tracking. If the bug report still reproduces in a current version of [Firefox on Android nightly](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix) an issue can be reported at the [Fenix GitHub project](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/). If you want to discuss your report please use [Mozilla's chat](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix#Connect_to_Matrix) server https://chat.mozilla.org and join the [#fenix](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#fenix:mozilla.org) channel.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
Product: Firefox for Android → Firefox for Android Graveyard
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