Experiments not Considering Redirection from Vanity URLs

[bryanboza]

Problem Statement

Currently, experiments in dotCMS are not taking into consideration the redirection from vanity URLs. This means that if a user accesses a page through a vanity URL, any experiments associated with that page will not be applied. This can lead to inconsistent user experiences and inaccurate experiment results."
Here is the configuration used to test:

Steps to Reproduce

• Set up an experiment for a specific page
• Create a vanity URL that redirects to the target page of the experiment.
• Access the target page through the vanity URL.
• Observe that the experiment is not applied to the page.

Acceptance Criteria

• When a page is accessed through a vanity URL, any experiments associated with that page should be applied.
• Users accessing the page through the vanity URL should experience the variations defined in the experiments.
• Experiment results should accurately reflect the behavior of the experiments for users accessing the page through vanity URLs.

dotCMS Version

Tested on master // Docker // FF

Proposed Objective

Quality Assurance

Proposed Priority

Priority 2 - Important

Quality Assurance Notes & Workarounds

• QA should verify that experiments are correctly applied when accessing pages through vanity URLs.
• Workarounds may include manually accessing the page using the actual page URL instead of the vanity URL to ensure that experiments are applied properly.

[john-thomas-dotcms]

Let's test if this problem exists when the Vanity URL uses a 301 or 302 redirection (instead of a 200 forward). If it works with 301 or 302, then this is an outside case, and we can potentially address it later.