[tor-bugs] #21952 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Onion-location: increasing the use of onion services through automatic redirects and aliasing

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#21952: Onion-location: increasing the use of onion services through automatic
redirects and aliasing
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 Reporter:  linda                                |          Owner:  acat
     Type:  project                              |         Status:
                                                 |  needs_review
 Priority:  Medium                               |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser             |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                               |     Resolution:
 Keywords:  ux-team, tor-hs, network-team-       |  Actual Points:  9
  roadmap-november, tbb-9.5, network-team-       |
  roadmap-2020Q1, TorBrowserTeam202002R          |
Parent ID:  #30024                               |         Points:  6
 Reviewer:  pospeselr, mcs, brade                |        Sponsor:
                                                 |  Sponsor27-must
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Comment (by pospeselr):

 Replying to [comment:103 acat]:
 > Perhaps this would make it closer to the semantics of "Refresh" header
 instead of "Location" (see https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20-TECHS/H76.html).
 More specifically a Refresh with a 0 timeout:
 `Refresh="0;URL='http://some.onion/whatever'"`. If we would follow this,
 with onion auto-redirects enabled we could internally treat "Onion-
 Location" (or "Onion-Refresh"?) as a "Refresh=0;URL=..." which takes
 precedence over regular Refresh headers, and if auto-redirects are off we
 would just not treat it as a Refresh and display the .onion available UI
 instead.

 +1 This proposal makes a lot of sense to me and seems to neatly side-step
 the issues of intermixing new logic into the existing redirect headers.

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