528295 - website redirects JSON data requests to locale-specific subdirectories

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Websites Graveyard :: getpersonas.com, defect)

Description

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

The website redirects JSON data requests to locale-specific subdirectories.  For example, it redirects /gallery/All/Favorites?json=1 to /en-US/gallery/All/Favorites?json=1 for en-US users.

This is unnecessary, since the JSON data feeds don't contain localized strings.  And it's harmful, since bug 528292 means that third party cookies aren't sent with the redirected request, breaking the extension's My Favorites menu for users who have unchecked "accept third-party cookies" in their preferences.

The website should serve JSON data requests at their original, non-locale-specific locations.

Comment 1

[Deb Richardson [:dria] (plz NEEDINFO)]

I can't figure out if this bug is still valid or not.  Myk: any guidance?

Comment 2

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

The way to reproduce this bug is to sign into the website and then load https://www.getpersonas.com/gallery/All/Favorites?json=1 while capturing HTTP headers with a tool like Live HTTP Headers.

When I did this just now, I captured the following headers, which show that the bug has not been fixed:

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GET /gallery/All/Favorites?json=1 HTTP/1.1

Host: www.getpersonas.com

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110425 Firefox/6.0a1

Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8

Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.7,hu;q=0.3

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

DNT: 1

Connection: keep-alive

Cookie: [deleted]


HTTP/1.1 302 Found

Server: Apache

X-Backend-Server: pm-app-personas03

Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:31:24 GMT

Location: https://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/gallery/All/Favorites?json=1

Connection: Keep-Alive

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.9

Content-Length: 0

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https://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/gallery/All/Favorites?json=1



GET /en-US/gallery/All/Favorites?json=1 HTTP/1.1

Host: www.getpersonas.com

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:6.0a1) Gecko/20110425 Firefox/6.0a1

Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8

Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.7,hu;q=0.3

Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate

Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7

DNT: 1

Connection: keep-alive

Cookie: [deleted]


HTTP/1.1 200 OK

Server: Apache

X-Backend-Server: pm-app-personas02

Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0

Content-Type: application/json

Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 18:31:24 GMT

Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT

Pragma: private

Connection: Keep-Alive

X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.9

Content-Length: 1790

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Now that bug 528292 has been fixed, however, the bug doesn't affect users of the Personas extension.  So you could choose not to fix it.

Comment 3

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

getpersonas.com is going away