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Bad redirection from `/docs/home`
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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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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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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100