Re: [Wikitech-l] Shorter URLs

2014-04-06 Thread Daniel Norton
On Apr 6, 2014, at 12:08 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: en.wikipedia.org/s/xr32 Hmm, I presume that you were just tossing out a random URL, but that “/s/” path seems to be configured with some special purpose, sending a 301 redirect regardless of the remainder of the path. Is that

Re: [Wikitech-l] Shorter URLs

2014-04-06 Thread Jeremy Baron
On Apr 6, 2014 1:53 PM, Daniel Norton dan...@danielnorton.com wrote: sending a 301 redirect regardless of the remainder of the path. Is that documented somewhere? (I would expect a 404.) The apache conf is in a public git repo. (not getting the URL for you atm because I'm writing from a phone.

Re: [Wikitech-l] Shorter URLs

2014-04-06 Thread MZMcBride
Daniel Norton wrote: On Apr 6, 2014, at 12:08 PM, MZMcBride z...@mzmcbride.com wrote: en.wikipedia.org/s/xr32 Hmm, I presume that you were just tossing out a random URL, but that “/s/” path seems to be configured with some special purpose, sending a 301 redirect regardless of the remainder of

Re: [Wikitech-l] Shorter URLs

2014-04-06 Thread Daniel Norton
On Apr 6, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote: On Apr 6, 2014 1:53 PM, Daniel Norton dan...@danielnorton.com wrote: sending a 301 redirect regardless of the remainder of the path. Is that documented somewhere? (I would expect a 404.) The apache conf is in a public git

Re: [Wikitech-l] Shorter URLs

2014-04-06 Thread Daniel Friesen
On 2014-04-06, 3:01 PM, Daniel Norton wrote: On Apr 6, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Jeremy Baron jer...@tuxmachine.com wrote: On Apr 6, 2014 1:53 PM, Daniel Norton dan...@danielnorton.com wrote: sending a 301 redirect regardless of the remainder of the path. Is that documented somewhere? (I would expect

[Wikitech-l] Shorter URLs (Was: Top Level Design, LLC greedy registrar!)

2014-04-05 Thread Daniel Norton
On Apr 5, 2014, at 6:31 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+...@free.fr wrote: What is the point of having shorter URLs anyway? Here are the related references: - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/URL_shortener - https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38863 -