https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48028

--- Comment #7 from Daniel Friesen <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > [history.replaceState][1] isn't limited to changing the hash; it should
> > suffice for this purpose.
> 
> I'm still not sure if we are talking about the same thing. A proper redirect
> must send a 301 HTTP response to search engines, crawlers, bots and all other
> user agents. I know Google parses JavaScript but I'm sure most other user
> agents don't. This makes replaceState more a cosmetically disguise, not a
> real
> solution for the problem.

Google and other crawlers are irrelevant, that's what rel=canonical is for.

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