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Confusing redirect to Bing homepage from F# compiler warning message

Open emz00 opened this issue 3 years ago • 8 comments

Warning FS3536 (see #14480) contains the following in its message:

See https://aka.ms/fsharp-iwsams for guidance

When you actually browse to that redirect you get redirected to a blank Bing page! This is really confusing UX.

Note that this issue is not just about fixing that specific redirect, though of course it should be fixed - it's about the general policy of redirecting to Bing for any URLs that don't exist.

Repro steps

Browse to https://aka.ms/fsharp-iwsams

Expected behavior

A page related to warning FS3536 or a proper error page if no such page exists, saying something along the lines of "This F# documentation page could not be found. Please report this as a bug at https://github.com/dotnet/fsharp/issues"

Actual behavior

I am redirected to https://www.bing.com/?ref=aka&shorturl=fsharp-iwsams

emz00 avatar Dec 16 '22 14:12 emz00