Closed Bug 1023003 Opened 10 years ago Closed 8 years ago

Use external links instead of URL redirects for reversed ecosystem URLs

Categories

(Marketplace Graveyard :: Consumer Pages, enhancement, P4)

Product:
Marketplace Graveyard
Component:
Consumer Pages
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: cvan, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

(Whiteboard: [marketplace-transition]) 

The ecosystem pages used to be real views. Then most of them were moved to MDN, so we removed the views+templates and replaced the views with redirects:

    https://github.com/mozilla/zamboni/blob/master/mkt/ecosystem/urls.py

We should instead link directly to the external link so the user doesn't have to follow a redirect (not to mention the other redirects that MDN adds for setting the user's locale, etc.).

Because it's not possible with Django's `conf.urls` package to have external URLs defined in `urls.py`, we'd have to either create a custom `external_url` helper function (made available via a template context processor), enhance the existing `url` helper function, or just hardcode the URLs directly in the templates.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 8 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Whiteboard: [marketplace-transition]
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