Documentation pages are blank

[hlandau]

Problem description

Most documentation pages on docs.docker.com are blank pages, containing no content.

Reproduction

1. Navigate to https://docs.docker.com/.
2. Follow a link, e.g. "Write a Dockerfile" to https://docs.docker.com/engine/getstarted/step_four.md.
3. The loaded page is blank.

Browser: links2.

[johndmulhausen]

@hlandau Can't reproduce; can you tell me what browser you're using?

[hlandau]

links2.

[danix800]

Try https://docs.docker.com/engine/getstarted/step_four/, not https://docs.docker.com/engine/getstarted/step_four.md.

[hlandau]

That works, but everything links to .md, not /.

[johndmulhausen]

If you are in a non-links browser, we actually catch links to .md and change them to /

Regardless of that, I've added logic to 404.md that catches attempts to use a .md URL and forwards you to the equivalent / URL with forwarding logic. Can you try clicking on https://docs.docker.com/engine/getstarted/step_four.md in links and let me know if you get forwarded?

[hlandau]

Nope, still blank.

[johndmulhausen]

Well, we've done all we can. Any redirect solution we have available to us is going to use or window.location.replace, and currently we're doing both just so that as many browsers as possible get redirected. I'm afraid we have to say that Links is not supported. In fact I'd suspect that there are many things are are broken besides this issue in text-only browsers that have no JS support. If you need to use a text-based browser, here is a Stack Overflow topic on text-based browsers that have JavaScript support:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/34687/is-there-a-text-mode-browser-which-supports-javascript

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