2mo ago

Help: Redirecting to sh.reddit.com submit doesn't work with Redirector addon

Solved: It turns out I needed to add https:// to the redirect URL. I now edited the redirect to be this:

        {
        "createdBy": "Redirector v3.5.3",
        "createdAt": "2024-12-25T00:25:04.487Z",
        "redirects": [
            {
                "description": "sh.reddit.com submission page",
                "exampleUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/submit?selftext=true",
                "exampleResult": "https://sh.reddit.com/r/firefox/submit?selftext=true",
                "error": null,
                "includePattern": "https://.*?reddit.com/((r|u|user)/.*?/submit.*)",
                "excludePattern": "",
                "patternDesc": "",
                "redirectUrl": "https://sh.reddit.com/$1",
                "patternType": "R",
                "processMatches": "noProcessing",
                "disabled": false,
                "grouped": false,
                "appliesTo": [
                    "main_frame"
                ]
            }, 
        ]
    }

Using the Redirector addon, I wrote a redirect from a Reddit submit page to the new new Reddit submit page but it doesn't work when I go to https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/ and click "submit text", it just takes me to https://old.reddit.com/r/firefox/submit?selftext=true despite the link working in the example box.

Reproduction: Install the addon, save the following as a json file, click on addon icons and select "edit redirects", then click import to select the json file.

        {
    "createdBy": "Redirector v3.5.3",
    "createdAt": "2024-12-22T15:43:42.356Z",
    "redirects": [
    {
    "description": "sh.reddit.com submission page",
    "exampleUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/r/tds_roblox/submit",
    "exampleResult": "sh.reddit.com/r/tds_roblox/submit",
    "error": null,
    "includePattern": "[a-z]+?:\\/\\/.+?reddit.com\\/((r|u|user)\\/.+?\\/submit.*?$)",
    "excludePattern": "",
    "patternDesc": "",
    "redirectUrl": "sh.reddit.com/$1",
    "patternType": "R",
    "processMatches": "noProcessing",
    "disabled": false,
    "grouped": false,
    "appliesTo": [
    "main_frame"
    ]
    },
    {
    "description": "Old Reddit",
    "exampleUrl": "https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit",
    "exampleResult": "https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit",
    "error": null,
    "includePattern": "[a-z]+?:\\/\\/.*?\\.reddit\\.com\\/(((r|u|user)\\/.*)|$)",
    "excludePattern": "[a-z]+?:\\/\\/.+?reddit.com\\/((r|u|user)\\/.+?\\/submit.*?$)",
    "patternDesc": "",
    "redirectUrl": "https://old.reddit.com/$1",
    "patternType": "R",
    "processMatches": "noProcessing",
    "disabled": false,
    "grouped": false,
    "appliesTo": [
    "main_frame"
    ]
    }
    ]
    }

3 comments

Dunno, but I'd start by removing the "?$" from your regexes unless there's a good reason not to. It's confusing to me and might be to the parser as well. There's also no need to escape the "/".
If the "?" is there because you're trying to require a literal ? in the url, you do need to escape that. But then it wouldn't normally make sense to have the $ immediately after it. "*?" isn't meaningful as a pattern quantity or whatever it's called: * already implies ?.
- I changed the pattern to https://.+?reddit.com/((r|u|user)/.*?/submit.*$) and it still doesn't work.
  
  Ah well, at least that's easier to read. +? and *? are weird although I wouldn't expect them to break things in a way that matches what you see happening. They can both be replaced with just *. + means at least one, ? means zero or one, * means zero or more.