A few people have questions & wishlists regarding redirects. If you have an opinion you’d like to share, comment below. The more information we have about your use case, the better! :slight_smile:

Cookie based redirect/rewrite In my static app I’m storing language info on localeStorage. My urls are like this: / -> home page with default locale /ch -> home page with chinese locale If user visited my app before and set locale to chinese then visits homepage “/” without “/ch” he is redirecin…

Hmm, if you use a 301 redirect, that should happen automatically, if you use language based redirects: [image] Redirect options Understand redirect rule options to customize how site paths are matched and redirected. Does that not work well for you? Shouldn…

Wow. I was didn’t expect to this is exist. This is makes possible my use case I mentioned above. This is awesome. So can I redirect to user different path if its language anything else than a certain language. Something like: // I add a exclamation mark for example. // Imagine my website language …

Also I’m ignoring bots (e.g googlebot) in my client side redirect code for let the crawlers index pages on its correspondig language. Is this redirect rules do that for me? I dont want to crawlers to be redirected from / to /en because of its browser language.

I’d love this to work: ext:php https://somemirrorofsitewithphpexecution.com/:splat 200!

We would love to be able to redirect Internet Explorer users. So User-Agent based redirection would be a great addition to us. We no longer support Internet Explorer on our platform and are now showing users a page informing them of this fact. Our current redirection is based on a Vue.js route midd…

howdy @joaobarcia and welcome to our community! We think that is a bit of an antipattern (see this article for the reasoning: Browser detection using the user agent - HTTP | MDN ) so we don’t support it now, but if we change our mind and implement it, we’ll post in this thread to let everyone know …

Unfortunately, we don’t support negative matches like that. You’ll need a set of content for the language you want, and to make a 404 page for the content you don’t, something like this may work: /* /no-content-for-you.html 302! Language=zh /* /en 302! No rules to ignore bots provided on ou…

Thanks for the reply and the update :slight_smile:

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laura January 29, 2020, 1:40am 31

Thanks for the suggestion @niansa!

Redirect based on browser (aka: no one likes Internet Explorer)

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