Closed Bug 939751 Opened 12 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Broken link from the Play store.

Categories

(Input :: General, defect)

Product:
Input
Component:
General
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
critical

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: rik, Assigned: willkg)

References

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Details

(Whiteboard: u=user c=general p= s=input.2014q1)

Some of our Play store descriptions point to a broken link. http://mzl.la/FXinput points to http://m.input.mozilla.com/feedback. This URL returns a 403 Forbidden.
Who has access to the play store description? It really should get fixed there.
This looks like it's **not** a problem with the English version of that page: * (English) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox But every non-English language I tried both has different text than the English one and also has the bad link: * (French) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox&hl=fr * (Spanish) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox&hl=es * (German) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox&hl=de
The English Beta page also has this issue: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.firefox_beta
Assigning to Jesse who maintains the Play Store page. Also, don't think Input is the best product for a bug of this nature.
Assignee: nobody → jesse
Hi All. Went ahead and deleted it from all locales and beta as well. What link should I replace it to? Or should I just leave without it?
I think this is an Input bug for real. Cool URIs don't change. So if someone linked to this at one point, input should make sure it works forever.
I'm not sure I agree with "cool URIs don't change" or that this means I have to provide backwards compatibility for all possible links forever including ones I didn't know anyone was using. Regardless, when I rewrote Input, I didn't have a list of urls being used. I've been keeping an eye on http 403 and 404 errors and fixing the big issues I saw. The fact that we have barely any http 403 errors suggests to me those links aren't being used. I'm sure I could spend some time to alleviate this issue, but I think there are a ton of more pressing things to spend time on. Leaving it here in Input is fine. However, I contend that it seems wrong to have the English description in the play store completely different from other languages and that this bug should therefore be somewhere else. Given that the English description doesn't have links to Input, I don't see a good reason why the other version should.
Here, it looks like it's a .com/.org issue. Can we just redirect all requests to .com to the .org equivalent?
Is this an issue still? If no one says anything in the next week, I'll close it as WORKSFORME.
Firefox for Android does not have those mzl.la short links any more. I suspect you would be the best person to check for 404/403 errors.
(In reply to Kevin Brosnan [:kbrosnan] from comment #10) > Firefox for Android does not have those mzl.la short links any more. I > suspect you would be the best person to check for 404/403 errors. Check for 404/403 errors originating from what? Isn't this bug about broken links in the play store?
No, the http://mzl.la/FXinput link was removed from the Play Store. The only open question is how many errors loading http://m.input.mozilla.com/feedback and if input should forward .com requests to .org.
I see 2 403 errors in the last 2 days, but that also includes CSRF errors which also kick up 403 errors. So it's entirely possible that no one is going to http://m.input.mozilla.com/feedback anymore. I don't think this is worth the implementation and maintenance effort. Given that, I'm going to mark this as WONTFIX.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Bah--I screwed up. I'm not seeing stats for m.input.mozilla.com, so my measuring in comment #13 isn't relevant. I created bug #985920 to have webops create a redirect. Pending that we'll see where things lie. Reopening this.
Assignee: jesse → willkg
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
Whiteboard: u=user c=general p= s=input.2014q2
Depends on: 985920
After discovering how the servers were configured, I asked webops to redo them so now m.input.mozilla.org and m.input.mozilla.com redirect to input.mozilla.org. That should cover the 403/404 errors.
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago → 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Moving this to 2014q1 since that's when we finished this.
Whiteboard: u=user c=general p= s=input.2014q2 → u=user c=general p= s=input.2014q1
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