Comment 6 for bug 626878

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Björn Tillenius (bjornt) wrote : Re: [Bug 626878] Re: launchpad.net/project/+activereviews is a 404

On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 10:11:45PM -0000, Tim Penhey wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:11:23 Björn Tillenius wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:08:31PM -0000, Tim Penhey wrote:
> > > This url you are mentioning isn't linked anywhere from the website, and
> > > must have been manually typed in. Perhaps it is bookmarked incorrectly.
> > >
> > > We could fix it by registering a different type of view to redirect from
> > > everything but code, but I don't really see the benefit.
> >
> > Come on. One thing that is nice about LP URLs is that it's easy to type
> > them. Why break that for no good reason?
>
> It wasn't no good reason. The AJAX failed to set properties when the root
> site was wrong. With more API use it becomes more important that the root
> site of the URL is on the correct vhost for the object that you are modifying.

Then maybe re-open this bug? I'm not alone in finding this a useful
feature, and fixing this regression doesn't mean reverting what you did.
A redirect is fine.