[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #5458: Redirects should not trigger 429 responses

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#5458: Redirects should not trigger 429 responses
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 Reporter:  jonoaldersonwp  |       Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect          |      Status:  new
 Priority:  high            |   Milestone:
Component:  General         |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  seo             |
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Description changed by jonoaldersonwp:

Old description:

> Requests to https://wordpress.org/tags/privacy/page/15 are redirected to
> https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/privacy/page/15/.
>
> However, in the process, there are several interstitial redirects (the
> change in path, and, appending the trailing slash).
>
> This frequently triggers a 429 error for Google (and presumably other
> systems).
>
> To address this:
> - Rate limiting on 301 redirects should be removed (or radically
> relaxed).
> - Redirect rules should be consolidated (e.g., alter the path and append
> the trailing slash in a single process)

New description:

 Requests to https://wordpress.org/tags/privacy/page/15 are redirected to
 https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/privacy/page/15/.

 However, in the process, there are several interstitial redirects (the
 change in path, and, appending the trailing slash).

 This frequently triggers a 429 error for Google (and presumably other
 systems).

 To address this:
 - Rate limiting on 301 redirects should be removed (or radically relaxed).
 - System-level redirect rules (altering paths, appending trailing slashes,
 case normalisation) should be consolidated into a single redirect.

 This also appears to apply to ''any'' paginated request (e.g.,
 https://wordpress.org/support/topic/my-newest-blog/page/2/); which makes
 this even more damaging, significant, and urgent to fix.

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