Canonical Links with HrefLang Tags

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Q	A
Bug report?	no
Feature request?	yes
BC Break report?	no
RFC?	no

Given Scenario

• Page: https://domain.com/my-page
• Available Locales: de and en
• Default Locale: en

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Current Result

Default Request

GET https://domain.com/my-page/en

<link href="https://domain.com/my-page/en" rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default">
<link href="https://domain.com/my-page/en" rel="alternate" hreflang="en">
<link href="https://domain.com/my-page/de" rel="alternate" hreflang="de">

Query Request

GET https://domain.com/my-page/en?page=2

<link href="https://domain.com/my-page/en" rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default">
<link href="https://domain.com/my-page/en" rel="alternate" hreflang="en">
<link href="https://domain.com/my-page/de" rel="alternate" hreflang="de">

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Desired Result

Default Request

GET https://domain.com/my-page/en

<link href="https://domain.com/my-page/en" rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default">
<link href="https://domain.com/my-page/en" rel="alternate" hreflang="en">
<link href="https://domain.com/my-page/de" rel="alternate" hreflang="de">

Query Request

GET https://domain.com/my-page/en?page=2

<link rel="canonical" href="https://domain.com/my-page/en">

To Define

• Make this option configurable (i18n.canonical_query_urls: true)
• What about pretty Urls (e.g. https://domain.com/mypage/en/page/1)?