682005 - http://mozilla.com does too many redirects

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Jeff Balogh (:jbalogh)]

There's 3 redirects if I start with http://mozilla.com. If I start with http://www.mozilla.com/ (what google links to) I still get 2 redirects.

http://mozilla.com => http://www.mozilla.com/ => http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/ => http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new

$ siege -g http://mozilla.com
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: mozilla.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
User-Agent: JoeDog/1.00 [en] (X11; I; Siege 2.70)
Connection: close


HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: Apache
X-Backend-Server: pm-web03
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:56:20 GMT
Location: http://www.mozilla.com/
Content-Length: 231
Connection: close
X-Cache-Info: cached

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.mozilla.com
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
User-Agent: JoeDog/1.00 [en] (X11; I; Siege 2.70)
Connection: close


HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Server: Apache
X-Backend-Server: pp-web04
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:56:28 GMT
Location: http://www.mozilla.org/firefox/
Keep-Alive: timeout=20, max=968
Content-Length: 239
Connection: close
X-Cache-Info: cached

GET /firefox/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.mozilla.org
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
User-Agent: JoeDog/1.00 [en] (X11; I; Siege 2.70)
Connection: close


HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Server: Apache
X-Backend-Server: pm-web01
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0, private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:56:31 GMT
Location: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
Keep-Alive: timeout=20, max=996
Pragma: no-cache
Connection: close
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.9
X-Cache-Info: not cacheable; response specified "Cache-Control: no-store"
Content-Length: 0

GET /en-US/firefox/new/ HTTP/1.1
Host: www.mozilla.org
Accept: */*
Accept-Encoding: gzip
User-Agent: JoeDog/1.00 [en] (X11; I; Siege 2.70)
Connection: close


HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache
X-Backend-Server: pm-web03
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Cache-Control: max-age=900
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Encoding: gzip
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 16:52:28 GMT
Expires: Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:07:28 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.9
Connection: close
X-Cache-Info: cached

Comment 1

[mcbmoz]

James, Fred, Raymond, Stephen, Cory, -- thoughts?

Comment 2

[James Long (:jlongster)]

We plan on optimizing this. It requires the locale detection to happen when you go to mozilla.com which makes it a bit more complicated, and we decided to reduce the number of moving parts yesterday.

Comment 3

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Yeah, this is not new: the non-www version has always been redirecting once more than necessary. I suggest it's something we should fix during the bedrock project.

Comment 4

[James Long (:jlongster)]

mozilla.com will become fade away soon, anyway, from what I hear (when the mozilla.org pages are redesigned).

Comment 5

[Kohei Yoshino [:kohei]]

Currently http://mozilla.com/ -> http://www.mozilla.org/ -> http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/

And this might be a minor issue now.

Comment 6

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

Looks good. The first redirect is in the load balancer I think, the second one is the only app-internal redirect.

Thus, fixed.