Bug 13081

Summary:	Backlink leads not to the previous page
Product:	IPFire	Reporter:	First Name Last Name <bnacht>
Component:	---	Assignee:	Assigned to nobody - feel free to grab it and work on it <nobody>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Aesthetic Issue
Priority:	- Unknown -	CC:	michael.tremer
Version:	2
Hardware:	unspecified
OS:	Unspecified

Description First Name Last Name 2023-04-12 11:31:27 UTC

URL: https://<FQDN>:444/cgi-bin/logs.cgi/firewalllog.dat
If you click an address in the source column and are directed to the whois page, there is a << link at the very bottom of that page. But this does not jump you back to the firewall log but redirects you to the ipfire WebUI home page.

Comment 1 Michael Tremer 2023-04-12 13:39:22 UTC

@Leo, would you like to pick this one up?

Comment 2 Leo Hofmann 2023-04-13 14:57:35 UTC

@Michael, I have investigated this, this link cannot be generated correctly by the CGI at all.

firewalllog.dat is a POST form. To go back there you have to use the "back" button of the browser (or Javascript), otherwise the POST data will be discarded.

I can rewrite this button in JS using history.back(). Should I add a safeguard so that people don't accidentally leave the web interface when there are other pages in the browser history?

Comment 3 Michael Tremer 2023-05-26 14:30:08 UTC

Thank you for looking into this.

If we cannot really make it work well, how about we simply remove the Back button? It is pretty much useless.