#23531: APPEND_SLASHES behavior shouldn't redirect with a 301
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Reporter: mattrobenolt | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: Core (URLs) | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Keywords: common, middleware, redirect
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 1
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Redirecting with a permanent redirect (HttpResponsePermanentRedirect) can
lead to 404s and other unexpected behavior when things move around.
For example:
In settings.py, `APPEND_SLAHSES = True` (the default behavior)
In urls.py `url(r'foo/$', ..._`
A user visits `example.com/foo` and gets redirected to `example.com/foo/`
as expected.
Later, we decide that we don't like slashes in our urls, and change to
`APPEND_SLASHES = False` and change our url route to `url(r'foo$', ...`
A user visits `example.com/foo` again (which is now the correct url) and
their browser redirects them to `example.com/foo/` which is now a 404.
This behavior happens specifically because Django has told it that this
redirect is 100% going to happen, so the browser caches it and doesn't ask
the server again. In my opinion, it's a bad idea that Django makes this
assumption because it has no insight into what future plans are and
whatnot.
This behavior has also existed since at least 2007, so I'm not sure how
much effort needs to go into changing this moving forward for 1.8+.
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Ticket URL: <https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/23531>
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