wiki.techinc.nl/includes/exception/BadTitleError.php
Kunal Mehta 11c7478c23 Use HTTP 404 for BadTitleErrors instead of HTTP 400
The use of HTTP 400 dates back to T35646, which was to address
caching proxies and mobile browsers incorrectly caching bad titles
as valid content. However, this also means that caches in front of
MediaWiki, like Varnish, don't cache it either. Since we know that
these titles will always have no content, having these get cached
in Varnish is totally fine. Presumably the 404 will be enough to
tell other crawlers or scrapers that there's still no content on
these pages.

There's some room for debate on whether a HTTP 400 or 404 is more
technically correct here, but emitting a 404 seems like the more
pragmatic option.

Change-Id: I7b16f30ca6fd9a68f2a410692582692610f1f944
2022-02-27 00:08:58 -08:00

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<?php
/**
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
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*
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* http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
*
* @file
*/
/**
* Show an error page on a badtitle.
*
* We always emit a HTTP 404 error code since pages with an invalid title will
* never have any content. In the past this emitted a 400 error code to ensure
* caching proxies and mobile browsers don't cache it as valid content (T35646),
* but that had the disadvantage of telling caches in front of MediaWiki
* (Varnish, etc.), not to cache it either.
*
* @newable
* @since 1.19
* @ingroup Exception
*/
class BadTitleError extends ErrorPageError {
/**
* @stable to call
*
* @param string|Message|MalformedTitleException $msg A message key (default: 'badtitletext'), or
* a MalformedTitleException to figure out things from
* @param array $params Parameter to wfMessage()
*/
public function __construct( $msg = 'badtitletext', $params = [] ) {
if ( $msg instanceof MalformedTitleException ) {
$errorMessage = $msg->getErrorMessage();
if ( !$errorMessage ) {
parent::__construct( 'badtitle', 'badtitletext', [] );
} else {
$errorMessageParams = $msg->getErrorMessageParameters();
parent::__construct( 'badtitle', $errorMessage, $errorMessageParams );
}
} else {
parent::__construct( 'badtitle', $msg, $params );
}
}
/**
* @inheritDoc
*/
public function report( $action = self::SEND_OUTPUT ) {
global $wgOut;
$wgOut->setStatusCode( 404 );
parent::report( $action );
}
}