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 |
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 |
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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.