634709 - Create the url and redirect for mozilla.org/join

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Jane Finette]

The Join Mozilla program will use the url mozilla.org/join  

Please can you help create this url, and also create a redirect so that a person going to mozilla.org/join from multiple different locales will get 
redirected to their appropriate country page on donate.mozilla.org based on their preferred locale.  

It will be important for this to be working in the next 7 days (launch event in Germany March 1-5). 

With many thanks
Jane

Comment 1

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

Pascal wrote a class that handles the locale detection.  The code is at http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc/projects/granary/libs/l10n/localeDetection.class.php?view=markup and you can visit http://granary.stage.mozilla.com/libs/l10n-demos/localeDetectionDemo.php to see a demo.

Once we have user's preferred locale, we need to redirect to the correct form.  Please note that this redirect must not be cached.  Here's what we did in some previous projects:

> header('Date: '.gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s \G\M\T', time()));
> header('Expires: Fri, 01 Jan 1990 00:00:00 GMT');
> header('Pragma: no-cache');
> header('Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0, private');
> header('Vary: *');
> header('Location: '. $url);
> exit();

HTH.

Comment 2

[Paul Osman [:paulosman]]

This has been committed to staging.

http://www-stage.mozilla.org/join/

http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc?view=revision&revision=83547

Comment 3

[Jane Finette]

thank you Paul - great news. Does that include German as well? 

Mike A -- does this mean we can now pass to QA and security for them to test whenever they have resources to review?

Comment 4

[Paul Osman [:paulosman]]

(In reply to comment #3)
> thank you Paul - great news. Does that include German as well? 
> 
> Mike A -- does this mean we can now pass to QA and security for them to test
> whenever they have resources to review?

Not quite yet. I'm still working on getting the thankyou page / pdf generator working on staging. Will update when that's complete, then we should be ready for QA / security review.

Comment 5

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

Paul, I'm not sure how things are set up, so maybe this comment can be ignored, but looking at http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc?view=revision&revision=83547, isn't the redirect going to be cached once the code is deployed to production?

Comment 6

[Paul Osman [:paulosman]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Paul, I'm not sure how things are set up, so maybe this comment can be ignored,
> but looking at http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc?view=revision&revision=83547,
> isn't the redirect going to be cached once the code is deployed to production?

Hmm, yeah I think you're right. I don't know much about the setup on mozilla.org, suggestions for getting around this?

Comment 7

[Gordon P. Hemsley [:GPHemsley]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > Paul, I'm not sure how things are set up, so maybe this comment can be ignored,
> > but looking at http://viewvc.svn.mozilla.org/vc?view=revision&revision=83547,
> > isn't the redirect going to be cached once the code is deployed to production?
> 
> Hmm, yeah I think you're right. I don't know much about the setup on
> mozilla.org, suggestions for getting around this?

Some code (maybe prefetch.php?) sends headers that force the page to expire immediately. That might be what you're looking for.

Comment 8

[Paul Osman [:paulosman]]

Added cache-control headers instructing Zeus not to cache the response.