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I'm surprised to see this from Instructables (Autodesk). If you right-click the back button you'll see that it did four redirects and you can click the 5th to g
by codazoda 3y ago
I'm surprised to see this from Instructables (Autodesk). If you right-click the back button you'll see that it did four redirects and you can click the 5th to get back.
I highly doubt this is effective at anything.
- flangola7 3y agoWhy do browsers even allow this behavior? The back button should automatically skip any blind redirects.
- j16sdiz 3y agobecause Single-Page-Applications they want the back button work with app internal state changes
- sublinear 3y agoSingle page apps don't require a frontend router and the same can be achieved by unconditionally sending a redirect from the server side for any request as long as you also hook into the "beforeunload" event in the browser.
- sublinear 3y agoIt's not the back button, but these two otherwise useful APIs used in a malicious way together: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/beforeunload_event https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/befo... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/href https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Location/hr...
- RobotToaster 3y agoInstructables went down the pan years ago when they tried to paywall the allsteps view. Autodesk as a company are known for shitty behaviour, so it doesn't surprise me they made it worse.