https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46680
Web browser: ---
Bug ID: 46680
Summary: Firefox pre-fetches some special pages when they are
returnto
Product: MediaWiki
Version: 1.21-git
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: Special pages
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Classification: Unclassified
Mobile Platform: ---
Since bug 16707 resolved, MediaWiki sets rel="next" to the returnto. Although
the stated reason is for UX (e.g. it mentions Opera can show some kind of Next
link/button), it has other impacts.
Firefox (and possibly other browsers) use this as a pre-fetching hint. For
regular pages, this can be fine. However, some special pages (I know of
ConfirmEmail and InvalidateEmail, but there may be others) take an action on a
regular GET request, even though this isn't generally best practice.
Firefox will not pre-fetch if there is a query string (see
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=175418), so my proposed fix adds
this to the rel=next URL, only for special pages that don't already have a
query string. It does not affect the actual displayed returnto link (<a>
element).
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