On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 04:49:26PM -0700, Gregory Szorc wrote: > On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 7:20 AM, Dão Gottwald <dgottw...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > > Can we please automatically redirect from > > https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/x/y.z to > > https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/x/y.z? My browsing history > > is littered with mxr URLs which used to make it very easy to find a file by > > typing part of the name. As it stands all those URLs are broken. > > > > Tangent: can we get a web feature that allows site operators to publish > "redirect rules" so user agents update references to URLs that now HTTP > 301? It makes me sad as an end user every time a domain redirects and my > awesomebar becomes less awesome because the presence of multiple domains > throws off the algorithm. And my bookmarks aren't current. And history > search yields unexpected results. And ... As a site operator, it makes me > sad that I have to keep old domains living forever. Sure, this is the point > of URLs. But sometimes I just want to pull the plug and not have to deal > with the domain registration, x509 certificates, rules in my HTTP server, > etc.
How would user agents get "redirect rules" if you pull the plug on the domain registration? Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
