Docs.rs: [feature] package.metadata.docs.rs to redirect to https://docs.rs/about/metadata

[lopopolo]

I naively pasted package.metadata.docs.rs from a Cargo.toml file I found on GitHub into the Google Chrome omnibar to learn about what values are valid in this TOML section. The browser treated this as a a URL instead of a search term, which makes Google Chrome show a _This site can’t be reached_ error page because no DNS entry exists for this domain.

I think it would be a nice usability win for http://package.metadata.docs.rs/ and https://package.metadata.docs.rs/ to redirect to https://docs.rs/about/metadata.

[jyn514]

@pietroalbini how hard would that be to set up?

[namibj]

@jyn514 The proxy/server (if nginx or apache or so) should allow that easily.

[jyn514]

@namibj first there has to be DNS pointing to docs.rs in the first place, it doesn't matter how virtual hosting is configured if there's no request coming in.

[pietroalbini]

This is now up! package.metadata.docs.rs now redirects to the about page :)

Link to the changes to AWS due to this.

[lopopolo]

Thank you! This is great.