[Labs-l] Trailing slash is a pain

[Magnus Manske]

+1M...


On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:09 AM, Hay (Husky) <huskyr at gmail.com> wrote:

> +1. It's really annoying to explain to end users that they should put
> a trailing slash after a tool's URL. It doesn't make any sense. Please
> guys, fix this.
>
> -- Hay
>
> On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 5:03 AM, Hedonil <hedonil at action.ms> wrote:
> > It's a pain.
> > After fixing the interwiki links with an unconditional trailing slash,
> > all parameterized links which worked previously are now broken eg.
> > [[toollabs:<toolname>/en/baz]]. The main advantage of this was to not
> > generate external links, and it worked.
> >
> > On the other hand "normal" links on many tool websites and links to them
> > are still not working, throwing an error 500 which implies to the users
> > that something is damaged beyond all repair.
> >
> > It is one thing to be adamant that IETF standards should be adhered –
> > it's another thing that things should be working for the customers even
> > more as worked fine (almost) all the time.
> >
> > As Yuvipanda and Tim suggested, it would be easy to fix this issue
> > inside the proxy itself, identifying running tools eg. via proxy redis
> > and adding a slash to /only/ this tools root paths if nothing else
> > follows – and avoid these errors by fixing errors.
> >
> > Please make it happen.
> >
> > -Hedonil
> >
> >
> > On 22/04/14 12:17, Hedonil wrote:
> >> I think this issue should be fixed soon at the source (proxy) as not
> only
> >> your link is affected but all other links with missing trailing slash
> >> get a 500 too.
> >> Including all interwiki-links [[toollabs:<toolname>]] on documentation
> >> pages.
> >>
> >> -Hedonil
> >>
> >> On 21/04/14 13:00, labs-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
> >>
> >>> Thanks buddy!
> >>>
> >>> I think
> >>>
> https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Help:Internet_Archive#One:_ia-upload_toolshould
> >>> change the link
> >>>
> >>> Jayanta
> >>
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