45717 - History should skip redirects

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 39938

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect, P3)

Description

[Phil Peterson]

Using 2000-07-17-08 commercial build on NT

1. Click to a page with a redirect
2. After the redirect is followed, click the Back button
3. Goes back to page with redirect
4. Repeat until putting a brick through your monitor :-)

It would be really nice if there was a way to make Back skip over the redirect,
so you ended up on the previous user-visible page. Otherwise, you have to play
this game of clicking Back twice quickly before the redirect gets followed.

Of course, you can work around using the Back menu, but that's counter intuitive
(for me anyway) when the previous page seems like the page *before* the redirect.

I see this all the time on My Netscape technews pages.

Comment 1

[Claudius Gayle]

I guess the redirect target needs to replace the original URL in SH.
marking Dupe


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39938 ***

Comment 2

[Claudius Gayle]

VERIFIED Dupe