Mis-typed urls result in a dead-end 404
Bug #3942 reported by
Celso Providelo
This bug affects 1 person
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Launchpad itself |
Triaged
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
The NotFound page is one of the most frustrating pages in Launchpad. Presenting search results for incomplete or mis-typed URLs, instead of a NotFound page, looks like an interesting solution.
The results could be primarily context aware, e.g.:
https:/
https:/
It could also present launchpad-wide results if nothing or few related instances were found within the current context.
This approach was mentioned in bug 1160, and reported for products in particular as bug 1500.
| description: | updated |
Revision history for this message
| Steve Alexander (stevea) wrote Re: Present search results instead of NotFound pages | #1 |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| status: | Unconfirmed → Confirmed |
| Changed in launchpad-foundations: | |
| status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
| summary: |
- Present search results instead of NotFound pages + misstyped urls result in a dead-end 404 |
| summary: |
- misstyped urls result in a dead-end 404 + Mis-typed urls result in dead-end 404s |
Revision history for this message
| Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote | #2 |
| summary: |
- Mis-typed urls result in dead-end 404s + Mis-typed urls result in a dead-end 404 |
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The way to do this is to raise a particular subclass of NotFound, say ProductNotFound. Then, we can register a custom 404 error page for the ProductNotFound error that has this search stuff on it.