when did url for my G2G profile page change?

Question

when I went to click on my pulldown menu for G2G profile it used to be

https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/user/Ormond-101

a server site message appeared that this was no longer the page. and had an active link sent me to

http://www.wikitree.com/wikicard/Ormond-101/626

Moved Permanently

The document has moved here.

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Apache/2.2.31 (Amazon) Server at www.wikitree.com Port 443

 

Did I somehow fumble the selection of proper page?

No, it looks like this repeatedly comes up.

What exactly is significance of "wikicard" and why add a slash and something numeric after my std Wiki ID

 

Note: it is now an hour later and I believe the original url is back connected....I must speak out for the "old-timers", If you shock us with the unexpected MOVED PERMANENTLY, it gives the image of FindaGrave

Comments

I get http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/following​

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That just seems to happen sometimes. I click on people in G2G a lot, and that "Moved Permanently" message comes up occasionally. Sometimes there is a link, sometimes the link doesn't work. It always self corrects.

I even asked this question one day when it was particularly troublesome

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When you get problem test the link http://www.wikitree.com/g2g/following

If the link works then it's probably an issue with the menue... 

I have had no problems so far...

I am on 

• Chrome version 49.0.2623.110 (64-bit)
• MacBook Air 4 GB memory

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thank you Magnus, it appears that you were not logged in on https

Nice to have friends taking time to check things out.

Regards,

Answer 1

Hi Marty,

[Most of this will be more technical than you need ...]

It must be the https/http difference. Most things on WikiTree are not secured/encrypted (that's what the s indicates). Just login. It would slow things down too much to have everything secured.

Most everything should just redirect. That is, if you go to an https://www.wikitree.com URL it should redirect you to the http://www.wikitree.com equivalent.

I don't know why you'd be ending up at https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/user/Ormond-101 or why https://www.wikitree.com/wikicard/Ormond-101/626 wouldn't redirect to http://www.wikitree.com/wikicard/Ormond-101/626 but rather than solve that we should just be able to use an absolute URL http://www.wikitree.com/wikicard/Ormond-101/626 on the iframed content.

Chris

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Chris thanks for your slant.

I'm one of the nerds that does like to keep glancing at what my browser or my site server does on a regular basis and what times it goes to strange routines.

My browser right now is Firefox

I had thought I was logged in: looking back at my history library, I see that I was on https, then I think I did the pull down menu and went to G2G Profile.

Anyway I'm satisfied to hear about some of the normal variations.

But personally WHAT is significance of the /626 added on the string? I dislike cookies and tracking that do nothing for me, the user

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Hi Marty.

The 626 isn't about tracking. We designed a nifty system for ourselves that can generate the same basic data in a lot of different ways, almost like an internal API. The number in a /treewidget/ or /wikicard/ directory indicates which template to use to display the data.

Now that you know this you might start noticing /treewidget/ and /wikicard/ in a lot of our URLs.

Chris

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Chris, I love learning things, so thanks for your time and helpful dialog