https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18883
--- Comment #12 from Tim Starling <[email protected]> 2010-07-01 05:16:25 UTC --- (In reply to comment #7) > This bug is not about asking to add 3xx redirects to Wikipedia - in fact it > just asking to add support HTTP status codes to MediaWiki. This is about HTTP > protocol compliance. (In reply to comment #8) > An option to allow for standards compliance seems reasonable, at a minimum, > though changing the default behavior does as well, given that I don't see a > particularly good reason to buck the (reasonable) standard. (In reply to comment #9) > The option should be to break compliance, or said otherwise, the default > should > be for it to actually redirect and the option allows you to stop that. We already comply with standards. There's nothing in the HTTP specification which prohibits the sending of similar pages with different URLs. We use a different URL to support the "redirected from" link. This system is a robust, client-independent and standards-compliant method for implementing that feature. -- 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
