Footer links, redirects, slashes

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On Site footer (or _data/footer.yml):

"Using Solid" links to https://solidproject.org/users but on the browser (where JavaScript is enabled) it redirects to https://solidproject.org//users/get-a-pod (note double slashes). See also:

$ curl -i https://solidproject.org/users
HTTP/2 200 
cache-control: public, max-age=0, must-revalidate
content-length: 509
content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 11:58:20 GMT
etag: "2302d6749045fddf1e48426c2473152e-ssl"
strict-transport-security: max-age=31536000
age: 4122
server: Netlify
x-nf-request-id: 13617b25-cb13-4e43-9183-af0c2a3cb5b0-10276399

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Redirecting&hellip;</title>
  <link rel="canonical" href="https://solidproject.org//users/get-a-pod">
  <script>location="https://solidproject.org//users/get-a-pod"</script>
  <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=https://solidproject.org//users/get-a-pod">
  <meta name="robots" content="noindex">
  <h1>Redirecting&hellip;</h1>
  <a href="https://solidproject.org//users/get-a-pod">Click here if you are not redirected.</a>
</html>

"Self-hosting" links to https://solidproject.org/self-hosting and redirects to https://solidproject.org//self-hosting/nss (note double slashes).
There may be others elsewhere on the site...

Two common issues:

Update URLs in footer
Fix redirect eg. double slashes

See also issue https://github.com/solid/solidproject.org/issues/514 as that appears to also have some issues with slash handling ie. /TR should not exists as a separate resource since /TR/ is the canonical resource.

The overarching task is URI Templating: https://github.com/solid/solidproject.org/issues/249 . There is currently no systematic way of designing or maintaining the site's URIs.

Start with the footer links in _data/footer.yml and reproduce the /users and /self-hosting redirects with curl. Check issue 514 for related slash-handling context and issue 249 for the broader URI-templating task; done means the footer URLs and redirects no longer produce double slashes, including any other affected site links.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

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