geneontology.github.io URL exposed in many cases where a "/" is not included at the end of the URL

[suzialeksander]

I think this is unintentional, but trying to provide a user with a link to

geneontology.org/docs/downloads#doi-versioned-bundles

displays the address of

https://geneontology.github.io/docs/downloads/#doi-versioned-bundles

I think we wanted the .github.io bits hidden?? On FF 98.x

@kltm

[suzialeksander]

This might also have something to do with having been sent to the /downloads page from our search but I cannot reproduce

[kltm]

I would agree that’s like unintentional or an error. We would ideally not be exposing any non-canonical URL. That said, a relatively surface issue.

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[kltm]

Looking into this a little more.
Basically, our proxy asks for a page, GH says "sure, found it" and sends a 301 redirect to the GH location, which the browser then follows.
We would be able to get around this by doing one of the following:

1. Going all in on GH as our root domain (some peripheral outstanding problems w/going this way)
2. Make the proxy smarter so that the rewrite with the slash is made at our end, never giving GH a chance to do the wrong thing.
3. Try and get GH to do the right thing; not sure if possible yet
   If this is an issue, 2 is probably the fastest out the door.

[kltm]

@suzialeksander Noting that http://geneontology.org/docs/downloads/#doi-versioned-bundles does not have the forwarding issue as the URL has the slash that GH Pages likes at the end.

[suzialeksander]

to add, no external group/user has ever complained or noticed, so door 2 seems to be a good solution