1405103 - en-CA has hreflang/301 mismatch

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(www.mozilla.org :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Justin Crawford [:hoosteeno] [:jcrawford]]

https://www.mozilla.org/en-CA/about/ 301 redirects to https://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/about/. But the about page has this hreflang tag in it:

        <link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-CA" href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/" title="English (Canada)">

This issue appears anywhere we have an en-GB localization (e.g. the homepage, etc.).

The mismatch between 301 and hreflang is perplexing; it probably perplexes any automated tool that depends on these features to understand a website's topology -- e.g. a search engine.

Some potential fixes that :pmac and I discussed include...
* eliminating en-CA or 
* ensuring that 301s and hreflang alternate tags always align

Comment 1

[GitHub Bugzilla PR Linker]

Attachment: Link to GitHub pull-request: https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/pull/5172

Comment 2

[[github robot]]

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

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/df016f2b18adff7f434917a6e7a5fe5d7932655f
Fix bug 1405103: Respect CANONICAL_URLS for unsupported URL locales

Before this change for pages that have an en-GB translation, other
non-supported english locales (e.g. en-CA) would redirect to
en-GB because it is first aphabetically. This should respect
CANONICAL_URLS since we say in the header tags that en-CA's
URL is the en-US variant.

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/f733d2fd96dcd1134887bf013e262005256ac9cd
Merge pull request #5172 from pmac/fix-en-CA-to-en-GB-1405103

Fix bug 1405103: Respect CANONICAL_URLS for unsupported URL locales