pages with interwiki prefixes cannot be passed directly to index.php
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	• bzimport
	Dec 31 2007, 2:44 AM

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Author: cbm.wikipedia

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Attempting to directly load a page with an interwiki prefix fails with an 'unsupported character' error, while directly loading an interlanguage page works as expected. Example:

This link works: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=fr:Main_page

This link does not work: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=mw:Main_page

Both titles work identically when typed into the search box; it's only when they are typed directly into the URL that the difference is noticeable.

Version: 1.11.x
Severity: enhancement

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Reference: bz12462

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 9:58 PM

• bzimport added a project: MediaWiki-General.

• bzimport set Reference to bz12462.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

• bzimport created this task.Dec 31 2007, 2:44 AM

cbm.wikipedia wrote:

The behavior appears to come from line 152 of Wiki.php, where a test for local interwikis is used to prevent redirect loops. Also possibly related to bug 850 (thanks to Splarkla on IRC for help with this).

This behavior is intended. Interwiki prefixes defined as local in the interwiki table display the behavior you demonstrated on fr: , non-local prefixes behave like mw: does. See also the blurb on iw_local at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Interwiki_table

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