Docs: www redirects incorrectly strip path

[jaydenseric]

Page URL: Every page of https://www.typescriptlang.org

Issue:

www redirects from https://typescriptlang.org to https://www.typescriptlang.org incorrectly strip the path from the URL. For example, https://typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/intro.html redirects to https://www.typescriptlang.org when it used to, and should, redirect to https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/intro.html.

This has broken many links to TypeScript documentation pages in many readmes and JSDoc comments for repos I maintain, where I always prefer to avoid pointlessly verbose www. in URLs. For example: https://github.com/jaydenseric/graphql-upload/tree/v16.0.2#requirements . Over the years I have been linking to TypeScript docs without the www. redirects worked fine; something has changed recently (not sure exactly when) about typescriptlang.org.

Recommended Fix:

Fix the typescriptlang.org redirect logic for www. so that URL paths are preserved, instead of just redirecting every URL to the homepage. This restores the old behavior that was in effect for years.

An even better solution would be to redirect https://www.typescriptlang.org to https://typescriptlang.org (preserving the URL path) for much cleaner URLs to TypeScript docs everywhere, without the bloated www..

[typescript-bot]

Hello! As per #2804, we are automatically closing all open issues. Please see #2804 for a description of what issues and PRs can be accepted going forward.

[jaydenseric]

See also #20 .