feat: declare the RFC Editor info page canonical for RFCs and subseries

ietf/doc/templatetags/ietf_filters.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
 from ietf.doc.models import ConsensusDocEvent
 from ietf.ietfauth.utils import can_request_rfc_publication as utils_can_request_rfc_publication
 from ietf.utils import log
-from ietf.doc.utils import prettify_std_name
+from ietf.doc.utils import external_canonical_url, prettify_std_name
 from ietf.utils.html import clean_html
 from ietf.utils.text import wordwrap, fill, wrap_text_if_unwrapped, linkify
 from ietf.utils.validators import validate_url
@@ -140,6 +140,19 @@ def rfceditor_info_url(rfcnum : str):
     """Link to the RFC editor info page for an RFC"""
     return urljoin(settings.RFC_EDITOR_INFO_BASE_URL, f'rfc{rfcnum}/')
 
+@register.simple_tag(takes_context=True)
+def canonical_url(context, doc):
+    """Absolute URL to declare canonical for doc on the current page
+
+    Never returns None - an empty or "None" href would be a canonical pointing at a
+    URL that does not exist.
+    """
+    if not context.get("snapshot"):
+        external = external_canonical_url(doc)
+        if external:
+            return external
+    return urljoin(settings.IDTRACKER_BASE_URL, context["request"].path)
+
 
 def doc_name(name):
     """Check whether a given document exists, and return its canonical name"""

ietf/doc/tests.py

@@ -47,11 +47,13 @@
                                 BallotDocEventFactory, DocumentAuthorFactory,
                                 NewRevisionDocEventFactory,
                                 StatusChangeFactory, DocExtResourceFactory,
-                                RgDraftFactory, BcpFactory, RfcAuthorFactory)
+                                RgDraftFactory, BcpFactory, StdFactory,
+                                FyiFactory, RfcAuthorFactory)
 from ietf.doc.forms import NotifyForm
 from ietf.doc.fields import SearchableDocumentsField
 from ietf.doc.utils import (
     create_ballot_if_not_open,
+    external_canonical_url,
     investigate_fragment,
     uppercase_std_abbreviated_name,
     DraftAliasGenerator,
@@ -2345,6 +2347,98 @@ def test_template_tags(self):
         failures, tests = doctest.testmod(ietf_filters)
         self.assertEqual(failures, 0)
 
+@override_settings(RFC_EDITOR_INFO_BASE_URL="https://www.rfc-editor.example.org/info/")
+class CanonicalUrlTests(TestCase):
+    """Tests of the rel=canonical link declared by document pages"""
+
+    def canonical_href(self, r):
+        """Extract the canonical href from a response, asserting that it is usable
+
+        An empty href resolves to the current URL and an href of "None" resolves to a
+        URL that does not exist - neither is visible when eyeballing a rendered page.
+        """
+        self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 200)
+        links = PyQuery(r.content)("link[rel='canonical']")
+        self.assertEqual(len(links), 1)
+        href = links.attr("href")
+        self.assertNotIn(href, ["", "None", None])
+        return href
+
+    def test_external_canonical_url(self):
+        for doc in [WgRfcFactory(), BcpFactory(), StdFactory(), FyiFactory()]:
+            self.assertEqual(
+                external_canonical_url(doc),
+                f"https://www.rfc-editor.example.org/info/{doc.name}/",
+                f"{doc.type_id} belongs to the RFC Editor",
+            )
+        for doc in [WgDraftFactory(), CharterFactory(), StatusChangeFactory()]:
+            self.assertIsNone(external_canonical_url(doc), f"{doc.type_id} is ours")
+
+    def test_rfc_pages_canonicalize_to_rfc_editor(self):
+        rfc = WgRfcFactory()
+        rfc.save_with_history([DocEventFactory(doc=rfc)])
+        (Path(settings.RFC_PATH) / rfc.get_base_name()).touch()
+        expected = f"https://www.rfc-editor.example.org/info/{rfc.name}/"
+
+        for viewname in [
+            "ietf.doc.views_doc.document_main",
+            "ietf.doc.views_doc.document_html",
+        ]:
+            url = urlreverse(viewname, kwargs=dict(name=rfc.name))
+            r = self.client.get(url)
+            self.assertEqual(self.canonical_href(r), expected, f"{url} canonical")
+
+    def test_draft_pages_canonicalize_to_datatracker(self):
+        draft = WgDraftFactory()
+        # an active draft's file is in both of these - see Document.get_file_path()
+        for dir in [settings.INTERNET_DRAFT_PATH, settings.INTERNET_ALL_DRAFTS_ARCHIVE_DIR]:
+            (Path(dir) / draft.get_base_name()).touch()
+
+        for viewname in [
+            "ietf.doc.views_doc.document_main",
+            "ietf.doc.views_doc.document_html",
+        ]:
+            url = urlreverse(viewname, kwargs=dict(name=draft.name))
+            r = self.client.get(url)
+            self.assertEqual(
+                self.canonical_href(r),
+                f"{settings.IDTRACKER_BASE_URL}{url}",
+                f"{url} canonical",
+            )
+
+    def test_subseries_pages_canonicalize_to_rfc_editor(self):
+        for doc in [BcpFactory(), StdFactory(), FyiFactory()]:
+            url = urlreverse(
+                "ietf.doc.views_doc.document_main", kwargs=dict(name=doc.name)
+            )
+            r = self.client.get(url)
+            self.assertEqual(
+                self.canonical_href(r),
+                f"https://www.rfc-editor.example.org/info/{doc.name}/",
+                f"{url} canonical",
+            )
+
+
+class SubseriesHtmlRedirectTests(TestCase):
+    """Tests of the /doc/html/ redirects for the bcp/std/fyi subseries
+
+    These patterns interpolate RFC_EDITOR_INFO_BASE_URL when the URLconf is imported,
+    so override_settings cannot reach them - build the expectation from the setting.
+    """
+
+    def test_subseries_html_redirects_to_rfc_editor(self):
+        for name in ["bcp1", "std2", "fyi3"]:
+            for suffix in ["", "/", ".txt", ".html"]:
+                url = f"/doc/html/{name}{suffix}"
+                r = self.client.get(url)
+                self.assertEqual(r.status_code, 302, url)
+                self.assertEqual(
+                    r["Location"],
+                    f"{settings.RFC_EDITOR_INFO_BASE_URL}{name}/",
+                    url,
+                )
+
+
 class ReferencesTest(TestCase):
 
     def test_references(self):

ietf/doc/urls.py

@@ -73,8 +73,9 @@
     url(r'^stats/person/(?P<id>[0-9]+)/drafts/data/?$', views_stats.chart_data_person_drafts),
 
 # This block should really all be at the idealized docs.ietf.org service
-    url(r'^html/(?P<name>bcp[0-9]+?)(\.txt|\.html)?/?$', RedirectView.as_view(url=settings.RFC_EDITOR_INFO_BASE_URL+"%(name)s", permanent=False)), 
-    url(r'^html/(?P<name>std[0-9]+?)(\.txt|\.html)?/?$', RedirectView.as_view(url=settings.RFC_EDITOR_INFO_BASE_URL+"%(name)s", permanent=False)), 
+    url(r'^html/(?P<name>bcp[0-9]+?)(\.txt|\.html)?/?$', RedirectView.as_view(url=settings.RFC_EDITOR_INFO_BASE_URL+"%(name)s/", permanent=False)),
+    url(r'^html/(?P<name>std[0-9]+?)(\.txt|\.html)?/?$', RedirectView.as_view(url=settings.RFC_EDITOR_INFO_BASE_URL+"%(name)s/", permanent=False)),
+    url(r'^html/(?P<name>fyi[0-9]+?)(\.txt|\.html)?/?$', RedirectView.as_view(url=settings.RFC_EDITOR_INFO_BASE_URL+"%(name)s/", permanent=False)),
     url(r'^html/%(name)s(?:-(?P<rev>[0-9]{2}(-[0-9]{2})?))?(\.txt|\.html)?/?$' % settings.URL_REGEXPS, views_doc.document_html),
 
     url(r'^id/%(name)s(?:-%(rev)s)?(?:\.(?P<ext>(txt|html|xml)))?/?$' % settings.URL_REGEXPS, views_doc.document_raw_id),

ietf/doc/utils.py

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 from hashlib import sha384
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Iterator, Optional, Union, Iterable
+from urllib.parse import urljoin
 from zoneinfo import ZoneInfo
 
 from django.conf import settings
@@ -807,6 +808,18 @@ def prettify_std_name(n, spacing=" "):
     else:
         return n
 
+def external_canonical_url(doc):
+    """Authoritative external URL for doc, or None if the datatracker is authoritative
+
+    The authoritative home of an RFC, and of a bcp/std/fyi subseries document, is the
+    RFC Editor's info page, so we point search engines there rather than at our own
+    rendering of the same thing. Documents of other types are ours.
+    """
+    if doc.type_id in ["rfc", "bcp", "std", "fyi"]:
+        # trailing slash matches the form the RFC Editor serves
+        return urljoin(settings.RFC_EDITOR_INFO_BASE_URL, f"{doc.name}/")
+    return None
+
 def default_consensus(doc):
     # if someone edits the consensus return that, otherwise
     # ietf stream => true and irtf stream => false

ietf/templates/doc/canonical_link.html

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{# Copyright The IETF Trust 2026, All Rights Reserved #}
+{% load ietf_filters %}
+<link rel="canonical" href="{% canonical_url doc %}">

ietf/templates/doc/document_subseries.html

@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@
 {% load static %}
 {% load ietf_filters %}
 {% block title %}{{ doc.name|prettystdname }}{% endblock %}
+{% block pagehead %}
+  {% include "doc/canonical_link.html" %}
+{% endblock %}
 {% block content %}
   {% origin %}
   {{ top|safe }}

ietf/templates/doc/opengraph.html

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 {% origin %}
 <meta property="og:title" content="{% if doc.type_id == 'rfc' and not snapshot %}RFC {{ rfc_number }}: {% endif %}{{ doc.title }}">
 <meta property="og:url" content="{{ settings.IDTRACKER_BASE_URL }}{{ request.path }}">
-<link rel="canonical" href="{{ settings.IDTRACKER_BASE_URL }}{{ request.path }}">
+{% include "doc/canonical_link.html" %}
 <meta property="og:site_name" content="IETF Datatracker">
 <meta property="og:description" content="{{ doc.abstract|clean_whitespace }}">
 <meta property="og:type" content="article">