[Labs-l] Trailing slash is a pain

Wed Apr 23 08:09:43 UTC 2014

+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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