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Bug 45255 - Give a 200 response for valid user pages
Give a 200 response for valid user pages
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
1.21.x
All All
: Low enhancement (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Blocks: 45241
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Reported: 2013-02-21 22:53 UTC by Ryan Lane
Modified: 2013-12-28 21:15 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description Ryan Lane 2013-02-21 22:53:32 UTC 
Rather than sending a 404 on empty user pages, send a 200 response.
It's ideal to use the user's page as an OpenID identity url, but
OpenID expects 200 responses on identity urls. If we send 404s on
empty user pages it's necessary for all users to have content on
their pages to use Wikimedia as a provider.
Comment 1 Ryan Lane 2013-02-21 22:53:45 UTC 
Change 50305
Comment 2 T. Gries 2013-02-21 23:04:26 UTC 
https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/50305/
Comment 3 jeremyb 2013-02-22 01:39:58 UTC 
merged
Comment 4 MZMcBride 2013-03-25 16:30:36 UTC 
Re-opening this bug for further consideration. Introducing an inconsistent behavior here feels really wrong to me.
Comment 5 Tyler Romeo 2013-04-08 17:00:56 UTC 
Closing this since the change was merged, and bug 46491 has been opened for consideration of reverting it.
Comment 6 Emufarmers 2013-04-29 05:37:40 UTC 
One consequence of this is that non-existent user pages are being indexed by Google.  A friend of mine pointed out to me that when you search for his name, you get results from en.m.wikiquote.org, en.wiktionary.org, en.wikivoyage.org, and beta.wikiversity.org, even though he doesn't have user pages on any of those.
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