when not existing URL is requested on /url/* page, present post form

Issue #477 open
Robert Jäschke created an issue

if the user enters on the /url/* page a URL which does not exist in the system, instead of showing an empty page, forward to the post_bookmark page.

PROBLEM: currently, when entering a URL on the /url/* page, this URL is hashed and a redirect sent to the browser such that the browser then asks for /url/HASH. Only after doing that we see, if the (URL)hash exists and if does not we don't know what the URL was (MD5 is a one-way hash function). Hence, we would need the redirect handler to query the DB ... this is currently not desirable.

Comments (4)

  1. Andreas Hotho

    but even if we didn't find the hash we can redirect to better error page or to the post form with some remark on it.

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