1332008 - issue a custom URL that directs to https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: Bedrock, defect, P1)

Description

[Bradley Cohen [:supnah]]

We need a custom URL issues that redirects to https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/ for the purpose of providing that URL to mossop so that he can get a change into Firefox for when users type moz://a (new logo in text form) into the awesome bar. By using a custom URL that redirects we can change where it points without uplifting anything to Firefox in the future. We do not anticipate frequent changes, but would like to have that available if necessary.

Comment 1

[:Atoll]

:place, this might be better-hosted on Bedrock, I think?

Comment 2

[Paul [:pmac] McLanahan]

bedrock is a fine place to put this. What URL would we like? Something like:

https://www.mozilla.org/opendesign/

Comment 3

[:Atoll]

I'd go with something like https://www.mozilla.org/logo/ or https://www.mozilla.org/mozilla-logo/ or https://www.mozilla.org/browser-logo/ personally, and let opendesign show in the endpoint. But that'd work too :)

Comment 4

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

(In reply to Richard Soderberg [:atoll] from comment #3)
> I'd go with something like https://www.mozilla.org/logo/ or
> https://www.mozilla.org/mozilla-logo/ or
> https://www.mozilla.org/browser-logo/ personally, and let opendesign show in
> the endpoint. But that'd work too :)

I'd agree with that, we might choose to just send this to the mozilla homepage at some point in the future or anywhere we want really. Users shouldn't see much of this url so it doesn't need to be pretty.

Comment 5

[Bradley Cohen [:supnah]]

My first preference would just be to use mozilla.org/protocol

Comment 6

[Paul [:pmac] McLanahan]

Attachment: Link to Github pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/4590

I've gone with https://www.mozilla.org/protocol/ for now, but it's easy to update before merge if anyone has objections.

Comment 7

[Paul [:pmac] McLanahan]

I'd personally make it an alias for "about:mozilla" or https://www.mozilla.org/book/, but I'm like that ;)

(this is a joke. please don't do this)

Comment 8

[:Atoll]

Note for all involved:

This redirect is being setup *only* for https://www.mozilla.org/protocol right now. I asked Bedrock team to handle this redirect as they work more closely with product needs like this.

If you want https://mozilla.org/protocol, we need to wire that up separately, and it'll take an extra hop through https://www.mozilla.org/protocol on the way to wherever. There are annoying reasons (apex CNAME issue) why mozilla.org isn't the same as www.mozilla.org, but we're trying to resolve that over time elsewhere.

Comment 9

[Bradley Cohen [:supnah]]

Thank you. Good to know.

Comment 10

[:Atoll]

+Myk who wrote a URL handler a few minutes ago, so that everyone's all in the same place.

Comment 11

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

(In reply to Richard Soderberg [:atoll] from comment #10)
> +Myk who wrote a URL handler a few minutes ago, so that everyone's all in
> the same place.

Not sure what this refers to, but I have a working patch for Firefox to support moz://a coming in bug 1331968

Comment 12

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

(In reply to Dave Townsend [:mossop] from comment #11)
> (In reply to Richard Soderberg [:atoll] from comment #10)
> > +Myk who wrote a URL handler a few minutes ago, so that everyone's all in
> > the same place.
> 
> Not sure what this refers to, but I have a working patch for Firefox to
> support moz://a coming in bug 1331968

Richard is referring to this extension: https://github.com/mozilla/moz-handler/.

Comment 13

[Paul [:pmac] McLanahan]

If we're all happy with the mozorg url being "https://www.mozilla.org/protocol/" I'll get my PR merged and into production tomorrow. If there are any objections please raise them before then.

Comment 14

[[github robot]]

Commits pushed to master at https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d07e0207dd612a39be4378abc0e76219a39f7b55
Fix bug 1332008: Add /protocol redirect to open design blog

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/9f7f86f179f8753c0cba3281986f17fcb36dc624
Merge pull request #4590 from pmac/opendesign-redirect-1332008

Fix bug 1332008: Add /protocol redirect to open design blog

Comment 15

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

When would this go live?

Comment 16

[Paul [:pmac] McLanahan]

(In reply to Dave Townsend [:mossop] from comment #15)
> When would this go live?

It'll go out with our next push. Probably tomorrow. We do several prod pushes per week, so it'll be very soon regardless. It's working now on our dev testing site:

https://www-dev.allizom.org/protocol

Comment 17

[Paul [:pmac] McLanahan]

This is now live in production:

$ curl -I https://www.mozilla.org/protocol | grep Location
Location: https://blog.mozilla.org/opendesign/

Note: it works with or without a trailing slash