https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20481
--- Comment #10 from Roan Kattouw <[email protected]> 2009-11-25 13:54:48 UTC --- (In reply to comment #9) > 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. > Of course. A suggestion made on the linked bug is that Squid should be fixed to purge alternates as well. > 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. > I understand what you mean by 'canonical', and I agree that each page should have exactly one canonical URL. It's my impression that MediaWiki enforces this correctly apart from not redirecting on under- or over-encoded URLs, as outlined in this bug and the one I linked to. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
