I saw someone handle redirect on every anchor link on server side. Yes, they handle onclick on serverside and then decide where to redirect. No they don’t use href or any sort that’s stated on the HTML. And this guy is my senior.

Rip

WTF, how do you even do that ?

@muttley how he think that’s okay is beyond me

@devTea Thats it. Now i know why you left that job.

That guy is so far ahead, he looks at MVC patterns in the rearview mirror

should implement a whole rest API just to handle clicks, with a scheme like

api/links/:link

and the response contains the name of the page that should be rendered which you can then handle in the front end :D

note: yes I am trolling

I used to call apis in core php code inside my laravel controller with curl

Bizarre... have you asked him why?

probably old and forgotten code

@localdam I’ve problems with him in the past. Not gonna bother handling his shit again.

@achu he is 26 and it’s a new project now

This sounds like a simpleton predecessor of HATEOAS (Hypermedia As The Engine Of Application State) where the redirect links are part of the REST API response itself.

@noder this is on ASP.NET webforms

@devTea 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

Howdy cowboy

@kgbemployee no the client doesn’t understand this kind of thing

Can’t trust anyone these days. Handle all the things server side....