Why Django Document site always redirect to an earlier version

[Zhiqiang Liu]

Most of the times it is redirected to v1.6, sometimes 1.10, not sure why it happens?

Are people aware of that?

[Dylan Reinhold]

From the main site, or from other site like stack-overflow or google? From the main site I get 1.11.

From another site you cant control what links are used.

Dylan

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 6:07 PM, Zhiqiang Liu <zachl...@gmail.com> wrote:

Most of the times it is redirected to v1.6, sometimes 1.10, not sure why it happens?

Are people aware of that?

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[phani p]

Guys i have an suggestion.Instead of showing https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ we can show it as https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/latest/ . Every time we have new release we can proxy pass /latest end point to latest version documentation.It will take time but in few days it will be uniform across all websites. 

 P.H.S.Phanindhra,

AE13B020,

4th year Undergraduate,

Aerospace Engineering,
IIT Madras,Chennai.

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[Florian Apolloner]

This is why we already have https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ links. From a SEO perspective we are going to stay with versioned URLs and redirects.

On Friday, September 22, 2017 at 1:03:26 PM UTC+2, Sai wrote:

Guys i have an suggestion.Instead of showing https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ we can show it as https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/latest/ . Every time we have new release we can proxy pass /latest end point to latest version documentation.It will take time but in few days it will be uniform across all websites. 

 P.H.S.Phanindhra,

AE13B020,

4th year Undergraduate,

Aerospace Engineering,
IIT Madras,Chennai.

On 22 September 2017 at 08:08, Dylan Reinhold <drei...@gmail.com> wrote:

From the main site, or from other site like stack-overflow or google? From the main site I get 1.11.

From another site you cant control what links are used.

Dylan

On Thu, Sep 21, 2017 at 6:07 PM, Zhiqiang Liu <zachl...@gmail.com> wrote:

Most of the times it is redirected to v1.6, sometimes 1.10, not sure why it happens?

Are people aware of that?

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[Zhiqiang Liu]

even https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ directs me to /1.6/ and will give me 404. This has been bothering me for a while and I don't know why it doesn't happen to many. I set up a brand new laptop yesterday and still have the same issue.

[Jamesie Pic]

Amazing, what's the output when you try `curl -I https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/ | grep Location` ?

If none, try without the `| grep Location`.

[Florian Apolloner]

Please provide the output without the grep -- I'd like to see all headers. We are sending a 302 redirect to /en/1.11/ for sure ;)

[Zhiqiang Liu]

Here it is 

HTTP/1.1 302 Found

Server: nginx

Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 17:26:03 GMT

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Content-Length: 0

Connection: keep-alive

x-content-type-options: nosniff

Content-Language: en

Location: /en/1.11/

x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block

X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN

Vary: Accept-Language, Cookie

Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://code.djangoproject.com

Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload

Public-Key-Pins-Report-Only: pin-sha256="og15UrKd7sLz7rIaFIsLD/n3qgqRrXmSQ37/d/8sqi8="; pin-sha256="deadbeefcafedeadbeefcafedeadbeefcafe1111111="; max-age=300; includeSubDomains; report-uri="https://djangoproject.report-uri.io/r/default/hpkp/reportOnly"

[Zhiqiang Liu]

Ah it used to happen to all my browsers, now with the new laptop it only happens to Chrome, so it is browser related I think.

[Zhiqiang Liu]

Finally found it out. There's a browser extension called django version switcher hidding in my browser, which is carried over to my new laptop when I set it up. The extension will intercept your request to django docs site and redirect you to a version it remembered. 

It must be long ago because I didn't remember there is such a thing. 

Thanks for all the help:)