https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35045
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Bug #: 35045
Summary: Use history.replaceState to rewrite redirect urls
Product: MediaWiki
Version: unspecified
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Redirects
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
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Modern browsers include a history api including pushState/popState/replaceState
support. Using these apis one can dynamically alter the path portion of the
address in the address bar without leaving the page. Additionally if you use
replaceState you don't create side effects in forward/back history.
Using this api it's possible to make [[Wikipedia:Redirection]]'s
/wiki/Redirection dynamically change to /wiki/Redirect in the user's browser.
I've been experimenting with a script to do that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dantman/vector.js
We should consider fine tuning code to do this and including it in core.
>From the user perspective this would have a similar effect to using 301s. It
would make end users end up copying the canonical url instead of the redirect's
url.
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