488121 - Need a server-side fix for language capitalization differences on MDC

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(mozilla.org Graveyard :: Server Operations, task)

Description

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Deki allows both "en" and "En" (for example; every language is affected) in its URLs, but because to browsers these are considered different URLs, clicking in-page links that include those results in reloading the entire document instead of simply scrolling to the referenced anchor.  Since these addresses are frequently user-entered, we can't control which gets used, so we wind up with semi-random page reloads when linking within documents.

Can we apply a fix to our server configuration that would automatically correct these so that the reload doesn't happen?

See http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.mdc/browse_thread/thread/39275cefc17cc23b/76fa7c4f22c9301e?show_docid=76fa7c4f22c9301e for a discussion of this problem.

The article here exhibits this problem: https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Code_snippets/Dialogs_and_Prompts

Comment 1

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Never mind.  Turns out Deki Lyons has a fix for this bug, so we can just forget it, since we're installing that RSN anyway.

Comment 2

[Eric Jung [:ericjung]]

Awesome, thanks for following up on this, Eric.