282249 - google links include application and os, lead to a dead end

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 246746

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[Gummi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; fr; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050128 Epiphany/1.5.6 (Ubuntu) (Ubuntu package 1.0+dfsg.1-2ubuntu5)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; fr; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050128 Epiphany/1.5.6 (Ubuntu) (Ubuntu package 1.0+dfsg.1-2ubuntu5)

There are actually two problems:
When looking for wayback, I get results like this:
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=firefox&version=1.0&os=ALL&category=Top%20Rated&numpg=10&id=318
This results in a dead link.
Google results should be trimmed to get meaningful uris, that have only the id
number in them.
Quick ref from the w3c: http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI 
http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/uri-choose

The other problem is that on the dead link page, I am presented with a dialog to
choose my browser's version. It assumes my epiphany browser is mozilla, and I am
stuck. In case the linked version isn't found, I should be redirected to the
extension itself and not to a particular version. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[alanjstr]

Here's the problem:
The site tries to be smart and show you only what is compatible.

So what you're proposing is that for the google agent we strip off the
application, version, and OS parameters.

That won't solve our problem of squid caching whatever the last person who
visited used.

As for meaningful URIs, that's a different bug that's already open. 

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

ehhhh...   I don't know that this is worth it before the site gets redone. 
Google frowns on people showing Google different content than the general public
gets and might not list the site at all if we do that.  Not to mention
user-agent-specific rewrites, while possible, are a pain in the ass.

Probably better to fix the app and just deal with it when we upgrade.

Comment 3

[Gummi]

Upgrade or no, the URL I gave will stay in google's cache; and the result is a
page with Firefox (which I'm not using), a drop down of 1.0+ and other versions,
and a Go button that leads to nowhere.
The site should redirect me to either
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=318
or if the user-agent detection would make this bounce, to something like
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?application=ALL&version=ALL&os=ALL&id=318
or maybe
https://addons.update.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?redirect=NO&id=318

I've looked for redirect and detect, and there's no bug opened for this.

Comment 4

[alanjstr]

The root cause is bug 246746.  Bug 247575 is about better URIs.  

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 246746 ***