Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (2014)

Re:Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (2014) by nomadiccoder on Monday March 25, 2019 @12:00AM (#19480228)

Why do some websites eternally not let you back to the previous page when clicking the back button?

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Re:Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (2014) by hannob on Monday March 25, 2019 @04:27AM (#19481014)

It's a redirect.

The link goes to the HTTP version of blogspot. This redirects you to HTTPS. If you click "back" you are back at the HTTP version, which will redirect you again.

Yeah, browsers could be smarter about this.

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Re:Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (2014) by jorams on Monday March 25, 2019 @05:30AM (#19481190)

> Yeah, browsers could be smarter about this

I'm not sure they could. If the http:// URL would have responded with a redirect to https://, the back button would have worked just fine. Instead it responds with a perfectly normal page that then does this:

    if (location.protocol == 'http:') location.protocol = 'https:';

Blogspot is such a mess, it's the perfect example of Google not necessarily being technically competent.

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Re:Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (2014) by Cthulhu_ on Monday March 25, 2019 @08:01AM (#19481777)

Yeah that should be a proper permanent redirect on a webserver level. Did Google make Blogspot themselves or did they buy it and never made it conform to normal web page practices?

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Re:Pulling JPEGs out of thin air (2014) by tsukurimashou on Monday March 25, 2019 @11:31AM (#19483389)

Google bought Blogger in 2003, Blogger was launched in 1999

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