Re: redirect loops in archive message-id lookup

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 3:25 AM, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I accidentally did a message-id lookup for a url of the archive. Like
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/http%3A/archives.
> postgresql.org/message-id/20170914065128.a5sk7z4xde5uy3ei%40alap3.
> anarazel.de/
> the result is an endless (presumably) redirect loop.
>
> Not sure if worth fixing, but thought it's worthwhile mentioning.
>

Did you get there by actually entering something in a search box somewhere,
or just by manual construction of the URL?

I think that redirect is actually generated by django before our app even
sees it. AFAICT it adds and removes the trailing slash all the time. So
it's not a trivial thing to fix...

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