Slug is required in topic URL?

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I went to link a topic from another topic and noticed that [link](/t/45202) produces the error
Access Denied while trying to load /t/id_for/14

However [link](/t/blah/45202) works fine. I believe this is a bug.

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actually this is intended behavior. you have to have something in the blah spot in the URL. You can put whatever you want in there.

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But why don’t you have to put something in blah when linking the full address? https://meta.discourse.org/t/45202 when you link on anything other than discourse. (Put that up in the address field of browser and it will work.)

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I see what you are saying now. It also works if you open in new tab vs click directly.

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Yes exactly. It can’t exactly be removed now since it’d break a lot of links to discourse sites. So I think it should be fixed to allow t/1234 within the same Discourse site for consistency.

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Seems similar to:

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Yeah that’s the same issue (I couldn’t find that when searching.)
@codinghorror says there that a slug of at least 1 character is required. If that’s the case, how did it end up that slugs aren’t required for fully qualified links?

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that’s a good point and I wasn’t aware of it. I don’t think this used to work and I’m not sure why it does.

nice URL hacking! :wink:

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