client override of url in address bar prevents annotation lookup about client HOT 2 CLOSED

@judell I confess, I've read the description a few times and I'm not immediately wrapping my head around the summary of the issue—before I try to grok, I thought I'd ask if you knew offhand if this is still an issue worthy of investigation? Thanks!

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To summarize:

1. A page was annotated at a time when it did not have <link rel=canonical> in it
2. A <link rel=canonical> was added later, with a URL that differs from the actual URL of the page
3. The URL from (2) now overrides the real page URL, so annotations made in step (1) no longer appear

The current state is that this is expected behavior. Hypothesis has always given precedence to the <link rel=canonical> URL. We do now have an admin tool in h which can be used to bulk migrate annotations from one set of URLs to another and developers can use the API to update the URLs of existing annotations. There is still no functionality for non-technical users to edit the URLs of existing annotations however (see #5220). Annotations made on the original URL don't show up for the reasons explained above, but they are accessible through the notebook and activity pages.

I'm closing this as "works as expected", although it would obviously be useful to have a mechanism for users to modify URLs of existing annotations so that they do show up on the new URL.

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