"Steve Bennett" wrote:
You're proposing that wiki.org/A force a (server-side?) redirect to wiki.org/B, display the content of B, with a link back to A, and yet the URL shows wiki.org/B? The question is, how does MediaWiki know to show the link back if the URL is only wiki.org/B, and not wiki.org/B&red=A or something?
There is another option to have the link back that nobody said, and is using the Referer: header the user-agent gives. That would give enough information to make the link back while avoiding the ?ugly=url. The risk is not showing the back link to all the clients, as we're relying on the information they gave before, though most common browsers give it.