[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 10 months ago]

That used to happen here depending on which login box you used. I think it still does. You get a message in Firefox along the lines of “This page is redirecting in a way that will never resolve”.

Discussion long ago about this very problem:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/redirect-error-on-login-at-bbpressorg

https://trac.bbpress.org/changeset/556

I think since then, I’ve learned second hand that this does not work because referers are blocked by the browser or personal firewall. If referers were enabled, I don’t think it would happen. Maybe that’s why IE acts differently than FF. See this recent discussion:

https://bbpress.org/forums/topic/heres-a-trick-to-redirect-user-back-to-topic-after-login