770254 - Kuma: Legacy MT redirects lose query parameters along the way

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Editing, defect, P3)

Description

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

This URL:
    https://developer-new.mozilla.org/en/SVG/Content_type?raw=1&macros=1&include=1&section=Number

Should be redirected to this URL:
    https://developer-new.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/SVG/Content_type?raw=1&macros=1&include=1&section=Number

Instead, it's redirected to this URL:
    https://developer-new.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/SVG/Content_type

It's lost all the query parameters along the way. This is problematic for templates that may have only been partially fixed from the DekiScript days and still use legacy URLs.

The problematic behavior shows up in things like having the entire contents of a page, template wrapper and all, shoved into another page where just a single bare section was meant to be included.

Comment 1

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

FWIW, this URL does pretty much the right thing:
    https://developer-new.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/en/SVG/Content_type?raw=1&macros=1&include=1&section=Number

Comment 2

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

I think I may have come up with a band-aid fix for this in templates, so maybe this can be punted to post-launch

Comment 3

[Justin Crawford [:hoosteeno] [:jcrawford]]

:lorchard, is this still a bug to be fixed?

Comment 4

[Les Orchard [:lorchard]]

Looks like it, yes.

This

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/SVG/Content_type?raw=1&macros=1&include=1&section=Number

redirects to 

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Content_type

but should redirect to 

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG/Content_type?raw=1&macros=1&include=1&section=Number