AEM adds ‘.html’ to the Redirect URL of Internal Pages

Last update: Thu Nov 30 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)

The article addresses the issue where AEM adds ‘.html’ to the redirect URL of internal pages. This occurs if the redirect target is a space within the same AEM.

Description description

Environment
Experience Manager

Issue/Symptoms
AEM adds .html to the URL fragment (or anchor, the last part of the URL starting from #). For example:

/content/we-retail/us/en/men.html#FEATURED -> /content/we-retail/us/en/men.html#FEATURED.html

Steps to reproduce:

1-Create a new content page page1 under /content/we-retail.

2-Select page1 > Properties.

3-In Advanced tab > 'Redirect' field, set '/content/we-retail/us/en/men.html#FEATURED'.

4-Access page1 with 'View as Published'.

$  curl -v -u admin:admin http://localhost:6402/content/we-retail/page1.html?wcmmode=disabled

* About to connect() to localhost port 6402 (#0)

...

< HTTP/1.1 302 Found

< Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 08:21:19 GMT

< X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff

< Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8

< Location: http://localhost:6402/content/we-retail/us/en/men.html#FEATURED.html?wcmmode=disabled

< Content-Length: 0

* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact

Resolution resolution

This is a hard-coded behavior. The com.day.cq.wcm.foundation.impl.PageRedirectServlet#doGet is adding .html to the redirect URL if the redirect target is a space within the same AEM.

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