Remove recdirects from credits APIs by peterwilsoncc · Pull Request #643 · WordPress/wordpress.org

peterwilsoncc · 2026-05-20T23:18:10Z

Updates all the links in the credits APIs that were leading to redirects

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I'm unable to get a local environment set up so someone with a sandbox will need to ensure that I haven't introduced a fatal error.

WordPress Profiles: Added a trailing slash to the URL format, eg https://profiles.wordpress.org/wordpressdotorg -> https://profiles.wordpress.org/wordpressdotorg/
React: https://reactjs.org/ -> https://react.dev/
Babel Polyfill: https://babeljs.io/docs/en/babel-polyfill -> https://babeljs.io/docs/babel-polyfill
getID3: http://getid3.sourceforge.net/ -> https://www.getid3.org/
hoverIntent: http://cherne.net/brian/resources/jquery.hoverIntent.html -> https://github.com/briancherne/jquery-hoverIntent
jQuery HotKeys: https://github.com/tzuryby/jquery.hotkeys -> https://github.com/mathusiast/jquery.hotkeys
TinyMCE: https://www.tinymce.com/ -> https://www.tiny.cloud/
whatwg-fetch: https://github.com/github/fetch -> https://github.com/JakeChampion/fetch

More complicated:

PHPMailer, old links to http://code.google.com/a/apache-extras.org/p/phpmailer/ updated to https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer as that's referenced on the home page.
Temoji: I've left links to the Twitter version as is for the relevant versions as that's the library that we are using

Note: Most changes are from http urls to https. I've trusted the bot to get these right and haven't manually tested them. Other changes have all been validated and modified if required.

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Prompt:

Review the files in the api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits for the external library credits.

Each of these include a link to the library's home page.

Make a HEAD request for these links and docuement which ones trigger a redirect. Follow the redirects until you receive a successfull HTTP response.

You may use curl to make the HEAD requests.

At this stage only report, do not make any changes to files.

Eventually followed by a request to make the changes.
Agent: Claude Haiku 4.5 • 0.3x

See https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/8252

github-actions · 2026-05-20T23:52:43Z

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Pull request overview

This PR updates the WordPress core credits API data to use canonical (non-redirecting) URLs for user profiles and external library homepages across many historical WordPress versions, reducing unnecessary HTTP redirects for API consumers.

Changes:

Add a trailing slash to the profiles.wordpress.org URL template returned by the credits API.
Update multiple external library homepage links (e.g., React, TinyMCE, getID3, hoverIntent, jQuery Hotkeys, whatwg-fetch, Babel Polyfill) to newer/canonical destinations and/or HTTPS.
Apply these link updates consistently across wp-32.php through wp-70.php credits datasets.

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File	Description
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-credits.php	Add trailing slash to Profiles URL template to avoid redirects.
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-70.php	Update select external library URLs (jQuery Hotkeys, whatwg-fetch).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-69.php	Update external library URLs (Babel Polyfill, jQuery Hotkeys, React, TinyMCE, whatwg-fetch).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-68.php	Update external library URLs (Babel Polyfill, jQuery Hotkeys, React, TinyMCE, whatwg-fetch).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-67.php	Update external library URLs (Babel Polyfill, jQuery Hotkeys, React, TinyMCE, whatwg-fetch).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-66.php	Update external library URLs (Babel Polyfill, jQuery Hotkeys, React, TinyMCE, whatwg-fetch).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-65.php	Update external library URLs (Babel Polyfill, jQuery Hotkeys, React, TinyMCE, whatwg-fetch).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-64.php	Update external library URLs (Babel Polyfill, jQuery Hotkeys, React, TinyMCE, whatwg-fetch).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-63.php	Update external library URLs (Babel Polyfill, jQuery Hotkeys, React, TinyMCE, whatwg-fetch).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-62.php	Update multiple external library URLs (incl. getID3, hoverIntent, Masonry, MediaElement, Requests, Thickbox, TinyMCE, React, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-61.php	Update multiple external library URLs (incl. getID3, hoverIntent, Masonry, MediaElement, Requests, Thickbox, TinyMCE, React, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-60.php	Update multiple external library URLs (incl. getID3, hoverIntent, Masonry, MediaElement, Requests, Thickbox, TinyMCE, React, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-59.php	Update multiple external library URLs (incl. getID3, hoverIntent, Masonry, MediaElement, Requests, Thickbox, TinyMCE, React, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-58.php	Update multiple external library URLs (incl. getID3, hoverIntent, Masonry, MediaElement, Requests, Thickbox, TinyMCE, React, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-57.php	Update multiple external library URLs (incl. getID3, hoverIntent, Masonry, MediaElement, Requests, Thickbox, TinyMCE, React, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-56.php	Update multiple external library URLs (incl. getID3, hoverIntent, Masonry, MediaElement, Requests, Thickbox, TinyMCE, React, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-55.php	Update multiple external library URLs (incl. getID3, hoverIntent, Masonry, MediaElement, Requests, Thickbox, TinyMCE, React, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-54.php	Update multiple external library URLs (incl. getID3, hoverIntent, Masonry, MediaElement, Requests, Thickbox, TinyMCE, React, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-53.php	Update multiple external library URLs (incl. getID3, hoverIntent, Masonry, MediaElement, Requests, Thickbox, TinyMCE, React, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-52.php	Update multiple external library URLs (incl. getID3, hoverIntent, Masonry, MediaElement, Requests, Thickbox, TinyMCE, React, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-51.php	Update multiple external library URLs (incl. getID3, hoverIntent, Masonry, MediaElement, Requests, Thickbox, TinyMCE, React, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-50.php	Update multiple external library URLs (incl. getID3, hoverIntent, Masonry, MediaElement, Requests, Thickbox, TinyMCE, React, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-49.php	Update multiple external library URLs (incl. getID3, hoverIntent, Masonry, MediaElement, PclZip, Requests, Thickbox, TinyMCE, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-48.php	Update multiple external library URLs (incl. getID3, hoverIntent, Masonry, MediaElement, PclZip, Requests, Thickbox, TinyMCE, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-47.php	Update multiple external library URLs (incl. getID3, hoverIntent, Masonry, MediaElement, PclZip, Requests, Thickbox, TinyMCE, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-46.php	Update multiple external library URLs (incl. getID3, hoverIntent, Masonry, MediaElement, PclZip, Requests, Thickbox, TinyMCE, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-45.php	Update multiple external library URLs (incl. getID3, jQuery/jQuery UI, hoverIntent, Masonry, MediaElement, PclZip, phpass, Thickbox, TinyMCE, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-44.php	Update multiple external library URLs (Class POP3, imgAreaSelect, jQuery/jQuery UI, jQuery Hotkeys, PHPMailer, Masonry, MediaElement, Thickbox, TinyMCE, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-43.php	Update multiple external library URLs (Class POP3, imgAreaSelect, jQuery/jQuery UI, jQuery Hotkeys, PHPMailer, Masonry, MediaElement, Thickbox, TinyMCE, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-42.php	Update multiple external library URLs (Class POP3, imgAreaSelect, jQuery/jQuery UI, jQuery Hotkeys, PHPMailer, Masonry, MediaElement, Thickbox, TinyMCE, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-41.php	Update multiple external library URLs (Class POP3, imgAreaSelect, jQuery/jQuery UI, jQuery Hotkeys, PHPMailer, Masonry, MediaElement, Thickbox, TinyMCE, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-40.php	Update multiple external library URLs (Class POP3, imgAreaSelect, jQuery/jQuery UI, PHPMailer, Masonry, MediaElement, Thickbox, TinyMCE, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-39.php	Update multiple external library URLs (Class POP3, imgAreaSelect, jQuery/jQuery UI, PHPMailer, Masonry, MediaElement, Thickbox, TinyMCE, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-38.php	Update multiple external library URLs (Class POP3, imgAreaSelect, jQuery/jQuery UI, PHPMailer, MediaElement, Thickbox, TinyMCE, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-37.php	Update multiple external library URLs (Class POP3, imgAreaSelect, jQuery/jQuery UI, PHPMailer, MediaElement, Thickbox, TinyMCE, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-36.php	Update multiple external library URLs (Class POP3, imgAreaSelect, jQuery/jQuery UI, PHPMailer, MediaElement, Thickbox, TinyMCE, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-35.php	Update multiple external library URLs (Class POP3, imgAreaSelect, jQuery/jQuery UI, PHPMailer, Thickbox, TinyMCE, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-34.php	Update multiple external library URLs (Class POP3, imgAreaSelect, jQuery/jQuery UI, PHPMailer, Thickbox, TinyMCE, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-33.php	Remove trailing whitespace and update multiple external library URLs (Class POP3, jQuery/jQuery UI, jQuery Hotkeys, PHPMailer, Thickbox, TinyMCE, etc.).
api.wordpress.org/public_html/core/credits/wp-32.php	Update multiple external library URLs including SWFObject and SWFUpload links.

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dd32 · 2026-05-21T02:34:24Z

Claudes review has flagged:

3 endpoints that 404 on the new URL — but they were already 404 on the old http URL too, so the PR is just doing the http→https upgrade and not introducing breakage:

https://odyniec.net/projects/imgareaselect/

https://touchpunch.furf.com/

https://www.phpconcept.net/pclzip/

My review:

PclZip seems correct url, the site is undergoing updates.
TouchPunch is 404 with DEPLOYMENT_NOT_FOUND but https://github.com/furf/jquery-ui-touch-punch still links to that url though.
odyniec.net appears to have expired (Sept 2021 registration date) and taken over for other purposes. I'm sadly unable to find any activity from Michał online in the last few years, I would suggest updating this to the GitHub URL: https://github.com/odyniec/imgareaselect

The previous URLs no longer resolve: odyniec.net has expired and touchpunch.furf.com returns a 404. Use the GitHub project URLs which are still authoritative, as noted in the PR review.

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peterwilsoncc added 7 commits May 21, 2026 08:49

Update Babel Polyfill link to remove 301 redirect.

0903b7e

Update React link to remove 301 redirect.

bf76391

Update TinyMCE link to remove 301 redirect.

9ad14a7

Update profile links to remove 301 redirect.

4c0d3d5

Update remaining URLs with redirects.

ee29030

Replace PHPMailer links with GitHub repo.

16edde6

Update jQuery Thickbox URL.

dc73b5f

peterwilsoncc marked this pull request as ready for review May 20, 2026 23:52

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Update imgAreaSelect and TouchPunch URLs to GitHub.

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The previous URLs no longer resolve: odyniec.net has expired and touchpunch.furf.com returns a 404. Use the GitHub project URLs which are still authoritative, as noted in the PR review.

Merge branch 'trunk' into remove-credit-redirects

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