Manual navigation to usergroup/ edit pages blocked

[seabelis]

Problem

Editing usergroups i.e. https://openlibrary.org/usergroup/librarians?m=edit fails due to blocking no referrer

Reproducing the bug

1. Go to ...
2. Do ...

• Expected behavior:
• Actual behavior:

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• Environment (prod, dev, local): prod

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[jimchamp]

This problem has been excessively frustrating to me, and I am a person who rarely edits the catalog. Recommend that solving this and similar issues be a https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/labels/Priority%3A%201 or https://github.com/internetarchive/openlibrary/labels/Priority%3A%202 effort.

[tfmorris]

In the similar category, ?m=history for the "losing" side of a merge trace the provenance. Doubly bad because their's no link back to the source of a redirect like you see on Wikipedia and other sites, so there's no other way to get "referred" there. SO annoying.

To add insult to injury, the error screen is completely non-sensical with a broken image link and a silly "Looks like you lost your connection" message. https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL7659571A?m=history

[tfmorris]

Just discovered a hack which might help @seabelis - if you click the "Retry" button on the error page, it will refer you to the original URL. Problem solved! (Don't ask me why a "Blocked" error page has a retry button!)

[jimchamp]

Likely related: #10903

[jimchamp]

I posted a work-around in this Slack thread as a stop-gap. It's less than ideal, but hopefully helpful.

[mekarpeles]

I have a file openlibrary/templates/type/usergroup/view.html that solves this problem

$def with (page)

$var title: $page.key

<div id="contentHead">
    $:macros.databarView(page)
    <h1>$page.key</h1>
</div>

<div id="contentBody">

    <div>$:format(page.description)</div>

    <table>
      $for member in page.members:
        <tr><td>$member</td></tr>
    </table>

</div>

I just need to open a PR