# Clicking a link to a private or deleted topic shows as a network error
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-a-link-to-a-private-or-deleted-topic-shows-as-a-network-error/35797
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [11월 19, 2015, 1:35오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-a-link-to-a-private-or-deleted-topic-shows-as-a-network-error/35797 "2015-11-19T13:35:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [11월 19, 2015, 1:35오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-a-link-to-a-private-or-deleted-topic-shows-as-a-network-error/35797/1 "2015-11-19T13:35:32Z")
When clicking [this link](https://meta.discourse.org/t/only-one-filename-can-be-used-per-file-hash/20305) from within Discourse, I get a generic error message suggesting network problems:
Reloading the page shows the actual error:
I’d expect to see the latter page even when routing is done internally.
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [11월 19, 2015, 6:19오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-a-link-to-a-private-or-deleted-topic-shows-as-a-network-error/35797/2 "2015-11-19T18:19:25Z")
When I click that link I get the “doesn’t exist or is private” page.
Are you sure this didn’t happen because the topic was in “mid process”?
That is, could this have been a coincidence or does this happen consistently?
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [11월 19, 2015, 6:36오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-a-link-to-a-private-or-deleted-topic-shows-as-a-network-error/35797/3 "2015-11-19T18:36:45Z")
> [@Mittineague](#):
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> Are you sure this didn’t happen because the topic was in “mid process”?
What do you mean by that?
I can still reproduce this consistently, both logged in and in a private tab. Did you open the link in a new tab or window?
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### Author:  [@Alankrit\_Choudh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Alankrit_Choudh)
#### Post date: [11월 19, 2015, 6:39오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-a-link-to-a-private-or-deleted-topic-shows-as-a-network-error/35797/4 "2015-11-19T18:39:54Z")
Yup getting the same error
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### Author:  [@Mittineague](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Mittineague)
#### Post date: [11월 19, 2015, 6:45오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-a-link-to-a-private-or-deleted-topic-shows-as-a-network-error/35797/5 "2015-11-19T18:45:02Z")
> [@fefrei](#):
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> Did you open the link in a new tab or window?
Ah, I had opened it in a new tab.
When I just now opened it in the same tab I did get the “connection problem”
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [11월 19, 2015, 6:46오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-a-link-to-a-private-or-deleted-topic-shows-as-a-network-error/35797/6 "2015-11-19T18:46:15Z")
Okay, that’s expected. Opening in a new tab means that Discourse has to load in this new tab, so this is a case of external routing.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [11월 19, 2015, 9:36오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-a-link-to-a-private-or-deleted-topic-shows-as-a-network-error/35797/7 "2015-11-19T21:36:40Z")
Something for you to look at @eviltrout. Works fine for anon when opened in a new window/tab so it seems the issue is anon clickthrough only? Yeah, confirmed.
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### Author:  [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [11월 19, 2015, 9:48오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-a-link-to-a-private-or-deleted-topic-shows-as-a-network-error/35797/8 "2015-11-19T21:48:40Z")
I’m also affected when I’m logged in.
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### Author:  [@AbbasFaisal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/AbbasFaisal)
#### Post date: [12월 31, 2015, 5:23오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-a-link-to-a-private-or-deleted-topic-shows-as-a-network-error/35797/9 "2015-12-31T17:23:21Z")
I think this does not produce for the private topics, only the deleted ones for which the fix just got merged.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3944](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/3944)
@fefrei
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [1월 5, 2016, 3:26오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-a-link-to-a-private-or-deleted-topic-shows-as-a-network-error/35797/10 "2016-01-05T03:26:42Z")
Can you confirm this is fixed @techapj?
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [1월 5, 2016, 3:56오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-a-link-to-a-private-or-deleted-topic-shows-as-a-network-error/35797/11 "2016-01-05T03:56:13Z")
Yup, seems fixed to me. Thanks @AbbasFaisal!
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [1월 5, 2016, 3:56오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/clicking-a-link-to-a-private-or-deleted-topic-shows-as-a-network-error/35797/12 "2016-01-05T03:56:15Z")