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Submitted by Ctwx on Sat, 01/10/2015 - 19:39

Redirection error when accessing an English page

Project:Web
Component:Main
Category:feature request
Priority:normal
Assigned:quidam
Status:active
Description

When finding some pages using web searches, they usually give me English sites, like https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/trisquel-team. That's fine, but it tries to redirect me to a localized version of the site. If it doesn't exists, I get an Firefox (or whatever fork I'm using) redirection error.

My suggestion would be to just display the English version if there's no localized version available.

quidam:
Mon, 01/12/2015 - 00:48
Status:active» needs more info

> When finding some pages using web searches

Could you elaborate on how do you get that to happen, as in reproducible steps?

> My suggestion would be to just display the English version if there's no localized version available.

That is what the redirection is doing, it is either that or showing a 404 for a content that exists but is not translated to the language the url you are requesting is asking for.

Ctwx:
Tue, 01/13/2015 - 23:37

> Could you elaborate on how do you get that to happen, as in reproducible steps?

I created a new Abrowser profile (since I had some settings on trisquel.info) and browsed on www.trisquel.info. I got the German webpage (my native language and browser language). Then I took a link to an English trisquel.info page I found on DuckDuckGo: https://trisquel.info/en/new-year-new-building-system-and-more-transparency

Then I get a redirection error. If I change the language using the language switcher, I can browse on this site.

aklis:
Thu, 01/15/2015 - 00:39
Assigned to:anonymous» quidam
Status:needs more info» active