"Please try again" page should use 503 Service Unavailable, not redirect
Bug #489847 reported by
Matt Nordhoff
This bug affects 2 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launchpad itself |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Launchpad was down a few minutes ago. When you visited it, it showed the "Please try again" page (https:/
The HTTP server should have sent back the page content with a 503 Service Unavailable status code, but instead it sent back a 302 Found redirect to /offline.html on the current hostname. This is Wrong™, and less convenient for users:
* Users in web browsers can't just hit Refresh to try again, since it only reloads offline.html instead of the original page.
* I have no proof of this at all, but it probably confuses some tools that access Launchpad, causing them to present less useful error messages.
Revision history for this message
| Chris Morgan (chris.morgan) wrote | #1 |
| Changed in launchpad: | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
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The error messages inside Bazaar itself were highly confusing. I was trying to work out why it was complaining about a 302 Found...