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404 error produced through "/subscriptions/new"
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What is the bug?
Found a way to produce a 404 by clicking on the site's own links.
How to reproduce
- Go to the homepage.
- On the right side you will see a tab like this
- Now click on "all new questions" link
- Leave everything blank and click "Subscribe"
- You will get this error
A normal user's instinct after getting such an error would be, to try to subscribe again, so that's what we will do now:
- Now just scroll down on the same page to find the same "Subscribe by Email" tab
- Click on "all new questions" again
- Select a frequency this time
- Click "Subscribe"
- Voila! The subscription is saved but the page looks like a 404.
My analysis
- Visiting https://meta.codidact.com/subscriptions/new directly also results in a 404 (probably since this page is only redirected to if there is an error with a field)
- In a typical subscription process, after clicking "Subscribe" the user gets redirected to where they were last time when they clicked it - but in this case the old page was the error page which I guess did not know what error to display and thus a 404.
This is too specific and a user would hardly go down the steps you mentioned.
This can happen to anybody who initially forgot to select a frequency and would've naturally tried to do it again the correct way.
That may have low chances of happening but in the end this is just a post to help make the site better.
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