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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...
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#2: Post edited
by
meta user
·
2024-02-15T06:09:12Z (about 1 year ago)
attempt to remove status-planned
What the bug is- -
- Found a way to produce a 404 by clicking on the site's own links.
- How to reproduce
- -
- 1. Go to the [homepage](https://meta.codidact.com/).
- 2. On the right side you will see a tab like this
- 
- 3. Now click on "all new questions" link
- 4. Leave everything blank and click "Subscribe"
- 
- 5. 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:**
- 6. Now just scroll down on the same page to find the same "Subscribe by Email" tab
- 7. Click on "all new questions" again
- 8. Select a frequency this time
- 
- 9. Click "Subscribe"
- 10. 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.
- What is the bug?
- -
- Found a way to produce a 404 by clicking on the site's own links.
- How to reproduce
- -
- 1. Go to the [homepage](https://meta.codidact.com/).
- 2. On the right side you will see a tab like this
- 
- 3. Now click on "all new questions" link
- 4. Leave everything blank and click "Subscribe"
- 
- 5. 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:**
- 6. Now just scroll down on the same page to find the same "Subscribe by Email" tab
- 7. Click on "all new questions" again
- 8. Select a frequency this time
- 
- 9. Click "Subscribe"
- 10. 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.
#1: Initial revision
by
meta user
·
2024-02-15T04:33:18Z (about 1 year ago)
404 error produced through "/subscriptions/new"
What the bug is - Found a way to produce a 404 by clicking on the site's own links. How to reproduce - 1. Go to the [homepage](https://meta.codidact.com/). 2. On the right side you will see a tab like this  3. Now click on "all new questions" link 4. Leave everything blank and click "Subscribe"  5. 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:** 6. Now just scroll down on the same page to find the same "Subscribe by Email" tab 7. Click on "all new questions" again 8. Select a frequency this time  9. Click "Subscribe" 10. 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.