Bad redirection from `/docs/home`

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#3,247 opened on Oct 8, 2024 0 comments 1 reaction 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 2/5
Estimated time: 1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness: 35/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: typescript
Domain: web-dev

Research direction

Inspect packages/typescriptlang-org/src/redirects/setupRedirects.ts and reproduce the redirects from /docs/home.html and /docs/home. Compare the existing veryOldRedirects entries with the proposed mappings. Done means these legacy URLs reach /docs/ without an infinite redirect or loading loop.

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Description

Page URL: https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/home

Issue: I came across the link https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/home.html which redirected to /docs/home however this has an infinite redirection/ loading issue.

I think a simple fix would be change the veryOldRedirects in packages/typescriptlang-org/src/redirects/setupRedirects.ts to be

const veryOldRedirects = {
  Playground: "/play/",
  Tutorial: "/docs",
  Handbook: "/docs",
  samples: "/docs",
  "/docs/home.html": "/docs/",
  "/playground": "/play/",
  "/docs/home": "/docs/",
}

but I'm not fully sure why /docs/home is broken to begin with. It seems to work locally, but the current veryOldRedirects also seems to work locally 🤷

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