# Behaviour of external links for not logged-in visitors

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/behaviour-of-external-links-for-not-logged-in-visitors/14459>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** pr-welcome\
**Created:** [Abril 4, 2014, 2:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/behaviour-of-external-links-for-not-logged-in-visitors/14459 "2014-04-04T14:07:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)\
**Post date:** [Abril 18, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/behaviour-of-external-links-for-not-logged-in-visitors/14459/4 "2014-04-18T14:17:18Z")

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I knocked together a quick PR:

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/2278](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/2278)

> [@mcwumbly](#):
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> This may or may not have been a conscious decision

The ‘false’ behavior was from acting on an undefined value returned from `Discourse.User.currentProp()` when there is no current user, so it seemed to me to not be intentional one way or the other.

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