+1. It's really annoying to explain to end users that they should put a trailing slash after a tool's URL. It doesn't make any sense. Please guys, fix this.
-- Hay On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 5:03 AM, Hedonil <[email protected]> wrote: > It's a pain. > After fixing the interwiki links with an unconditional trailing slash, > all parameterized links which worked previously are now broken eg. > [[toollabs:<toolname>/en/baz]]. The main advantage of this was to not > generate external links, and it worked. > > On the other hand "normal" links on many tool websites and links to them > are still not working, throwing an error 500 which implies to the users > that something is damaged beyond all repair. > > It is one thing to be adamant that IETF standards should be adhered – > it's another thing that things should be working for the customers even > more as worked fine (almost) all the time. > > As Yuvipanda and Tim suggested, it would be easy to fix this issue > inside the proxy itself, identifying running tools eg. via proxy redis > and adding a slash to /only/ this tools root paths if nothing else > follows – and avoid these errors by fixing errors. > > Please make it happen. > > -Hedonil > > > On 22/04/14 12:17, Hedonil wrote: >> I think this issue should be fixed soon at the source (proxy) as not only >> your link is affected but all other links with missing trailing slash >> get a 500 too. >> Including all interwiki-links [[toollabs:<toolname>]] on documentation >> pages. >> >> -Hedonil >> >> On 21/04/14 13:00, [email protected] wrote: >> >>> Thanks buddy! >>> >>> I think >>> https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:Internet_Archive#One:_ia-upload_toolshould >>> change the link >>> >>> Jayanta >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Labs-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
