$wgExternalLinkTarget
* (bug 17789) Added a note to the total views on Special:Statistics saying that
is doesn't count non-existing pages and special pages
+* (bug 17996) HTTP redirects are now combined when requesting a special page
=== API changes in 1.17 ===
* (bug 22738) Allow filtering by action type on query=logevent.
&& ( !$request->getVal( 'title' ) || $title->getPrefixedDBKey() != $request->getText( 'title' ) )
&& !count( array_diff( array_keys( $request->getValues() ), array( 'action', 'title' ) ) ) )
{
+ if ( $title->getNamespace() == NS_SPECIAL ) {
+ list( $name, $subpage ) = SpecialPage::resolveAliasWithSubpage( $title->getDBkey() );
+ if ( $name ) {
+ $title = SpecialPage::getTitleFor( $name, $subpage );
+ }
+ }
$targetUrl = $title->getFullURL();
// Redirect to canonical url, make it a 301 to allow caching
if( $targetUrl == $request->getFullRequestURL() ) {