266816 - 4 pages using meta refreshes instead of HTTP redirects

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[dolphinling]

http://www.mozilla.org/raptor/,
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/smoketest.html,
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/intl/xul-styleguide.html, and
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/intl/xul-l10n.html (covered by Bug 266575) all
use meta refreshes to redirect people instead of standard HTTP redirects. 

http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/smoketest.html is linked to by
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/index-to-tests.html and
http://www.mozilla.org/status/2000-03-30.html (an old status update)

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/intl/xul-styleguide.html is linked to by
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/release-notes/m13-detail.html (M13
release notes)

The redirects should all be fixed, and the index-to-tests page should be fixed,
but IMO the status update and release notes should be left as-is as they're
historical (not sure what the policy on that is though)

Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

> http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/smoketest.html is linked to by
> http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/index-to-tests.html

fixed. now we need a redirect

Comment 2

[Nick Bebout]

fixed.

Comment 3

[Anne (:annevk)]

This checkin has overwritten revision 1.27 from dbaron.

dbaron, you said /products/firefox/start/ shouldn't redirect (301) to
/products/firefox/. Is that still correct?

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

No, it shouldn't redirect at all.  (And when it did redirect, it should have
been a temporary redirect, not a permanent one.)

Comment 5

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

If something like this happens again, nbebout's webtree cvs access is likely to
be disabled.  You should be much more careful when messing with high-profile pages.

Comment 6

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I've put the .htaccess in the root directory into the restricted frontpages
partition, so only people who can edit the homepage can edit it.

Comment 7

[Steffen Wilberg]

Another page in need of a proper redirect:
mozilla-org/html/support/thunderbird/index.html (redirecting to
http://texturizer.net/thunderbird/).

Comment 8

[Daniel Wang]

> If something like this happens again, nbebout's webtree cvs access is likely
> to be disabled.

dbaron, FYI, 301 in .htaccess does NOT work
http://rheet.mozilla.org/webtools/bonsai/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=mozilla-org/html&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=.htaccess&rev1=1.23&rev2=1.24&root=/cvsroot
http://rheet.mozilla.org/webtools/bonsai/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&subdir=mozilla-org/html&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=.htaccess&rev1=1.24&rev2=1.25&root=/cvsroot

it will produce an error message about the template

Comment 9

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I assume you meant that 302 doesn't work, since "permanent" is 301.

Well, if "temp" doesn't work, just use no keyword at all.

And what I was referring to here was the fact that my checkin was backed out
when landing another checkin because merge conflicts were resolved incorrectly
(and in fact, some of the >>>>>> were initially checked in).