Re: Comma tools (partially?) broken?

Hi,

* Mouse <mouse@Rodents-Montreal.ORG> [2024-02-15 23:06-0500]
>I found https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-XML,tools thanks to a semi-failed
>websearch.
>
>It says that various information is available about
>http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-XML.  It also says that some of these "can
>also be accessed by adding the comma prefix shown to the document Web
>address - these so called "comma-tools" work on any www.w3.org page".
>These strike me as an extremely useful feature (I'm using ,text below
>as my test case).
>
>But there are problems.  For one thing, the links given make it appear
>that the comma strings given are actually suffixes, not prefixes.

Indeed, they are suffixes (fixed)

>For another, they don't seem to work.  Following the "Contact" link on
>https://www.w3.org/ takes me to https://www.w3.org/contact/, but
>editing the URL to https://www.w3.org/contact/,text gives me what
>appears to be a 404 page (with the URL rewritten to
>https://www.w3.org/contact/,text/).  https://www.w3.org/contact,text
>redirects to https://www.w3.org/contact,text/ and gives me the same
>apparently-404 content.  I even tried https://www.w3.org/,textcontact
>in case "prefix" really was the truth; that did not rewrite the URL,
>but gave me a different 404 page.  I also tried switching out https:
>for http: - trying http://www.w3.org/contact,text - in case that
>mattered.  It didn't appear to; I got redirected right back to the
>HTTPS version (which is actually what I was expecting).
>
>I'm not sure what the truth is, but it doesn't seem to be what the text
>says.  Might want to fix this.

Our recent redesign changed the way many of these pages are 
served, causing these redirects and rewrites to be unavailable in 
some cases. This isn't something we can fix quickly but I made a 
note to try to address it when we have a chance. Thanks for your 
report!

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Gerald Oskoboiny <gerald@w3.org>
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Received on Wednesday, 28 February 2024 23:25:32 UTC