https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20481





--- Comment #9 from Lee G <[email protected]>  2009-11-25 13:48:19 UTC ---
Thank you for providing the link to the ticket.

Do you not think the use of Squid is separate from MediaWiki? Should not both
implement the same standards for URIs/URLs? Ideally, the URI should be treated
the same whether encoded or not, by all software. 

The term "canonical", in terms of URLs/URIs in general is reasonably-well
defined on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL_normalization

In terms of MediaWiki end-users, I think the term is used to refer to the
ultimate resource for a term. If page A instantly redirects to page B, because
an editorial decision has been made that term A is a synonyms for term B, then
page A will contain a Javascript variable with the canonical term.

In both cases, URI-encoding is dropped prior to the creation of the canonical
ID.

I am sorry I do not have an example to hand.

Cheers
Lee


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