1836803 - Drop the language parameter for Bing search suggestions

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Search, task, P3)

Description

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

For the Bing search engine, we are currently using a URL for suggestions that has a language parameter.

Under testing, it looks like the language parameter is no longer used, and Bing is using the Accept-Language header instead.

Documentation of a similar API also suggests that Accept-Language is used: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/search-apis/bing-autosuggest/reference/query-parameters

Hence, I want to remove the language parameter from the URL. This will allow us to remove support for the {moz:locale} parameter replacement, however out of an abundance of caution, I want to delay removing support until after the URL change ships. I'll file a follow-up to remove that later.

Comment 1

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Attachment: Bug 1836803 - Drop the language parameter for Bing search suggestions url. r?#search-reviewers!

Comment 2

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/c6aac44fd0d6
Drop the language parameter for Bing search suggestions url. r=search-reviewers,jteow

Comment 3

[Natalia Csoregi [:nataliaCs]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c6aac44fd0d6