Steps to get this bug:
- You click on a link which redirects to a section where you don’t have access to.
- If it says error 404, click on the
<button to go to the previous page - It just redirects to the 404 page instead of the previous page.
No repro.
- Open new Chrome incognito window
- Navigate to
google.com - I try to visit the URL of a staff topic on try.discourse.org and get a 404
- Press back button, I am taken back to Google
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It happens to me when I do this:
In discourse, I click on the link above, but I don’t have permissions to go to the that site setting.
Then I can’t go back to the discourse post with the link.
Use the browser menu on the back link. Click and hold, or tap and hold, on the back arrow:
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I’m fairly sure that this has to do with our click interceptor failing to avoid stepping on ember route’s toes - I fixed a similar issue we noticed while navigating to the hidden profile pages, and it sounds like that it’s the same issue you’re experiencing here 
https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/09cbd08c64d0f405ecfbafee7203ac4946ddac15
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FYI this wasn’t it and these changes have been reverted - I’ll be looking for a better solution to this soon.
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Was this change merged in? I’ve got a relatively recent version running and am running into the same problem where you can’t use the back button on the browser from a hidden profile page. I was able to reproduce it here on meta, also.
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Can repro this by going to the regular badge page.
https://meta.discourse.org/badges/3/regular
then viewing this fella’s profile there
then trying to go back to the previous internal page.
Robin made a patch here that may resolve this. I’m no longer able to reproduce the issue reported here on meta since the patch, @Chaboi_3000 can you confirm this?
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Yep, it’s fixed now. Thanks.
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