Bug: odd redirect between webadmin and web

[jamoore]

• Login to webadmin
• Logout
• Login to webclient
• Logout
• See login screen
• Change URL from /webclient to /webadmin
• Type user/pass
• See webclient, i.e. I was redirected elsewhere.

[wmoore]

When you go to

http://localhost:8000/webclient/login/?url=/webclient/

the redirect after login (to /webclient) has already been read. Editing the url at this point will have no effect.

Josh: Do you think this is behavior we need to support? If you just login, THEN edit the url, you will get where you want to be.

[jmoore]

With there now being a "userdata" and "admin" tab, this might not be so critical, since I think users will far less frequently be changing the URL now to go between webclient and webadmin. But if this can happen with other urls, it might be worth investigating since it's a VERY odd experience as a user.

[wmoore]

Discussed with Ola:

If you edit the url

http://localhost:8000/webclient/login/?url=/webclient/

to

http://localhost:8000/webclient/login/?url=/webadmin/

And hit enter (page refreshes) and THEN login, you will be directed to webadmin. If you simply edit the url and login on the same page (no refresh) then the url is ignored. This is standard web behavior: If I edit the url of any page in my browser (without hitting enter) then I click a link in the page, the edit is ignored.

I can understand why you expect the behaviour you've described (since I made the same mistake myself once) but it would require quite a bit of javascript trickery to get that to work (not even sure it's possible). OK to close?

[jmoore]

The edit you posted isn't what happened in my case. Neverthless, this is probably not that critical. If I see a case of it really having a user impact, I'll reopen.