Link to request page from pages noting an attachment has been hidden

[RichardTaylor]

When non-logged in user visits a link to an attachment to a message which has now been hidden they get a message such as:

Message has been removed
This message has been hidden. [prominence reason]. A replacement response has been offered, and is expected. Please contact us if you have any questions. If you are the requester, then you may sign in to view the message.

An expert user could trim the URL back to /request/[requestID] and find the request page.

I'm wondering if a link could be provided to the request page so all those landing on such pages can be provided with a link to the request page in question.

Sometimes we have to hide messages containing lots of attachments due to an issue with one attachment, providing the link back to the thread might point readers in the direction of a replacement response, or uploaded attachments.

An example request on WhatDoTheyKnow where a message with attachments has been hidden is request 467592.

See also: Allow individual attachments to incoming messages to be hidden #1005

I think this feature would be useful even if we could hide individual attachments.

I've been wondering if we'd be in any way "leaking" URLs of hidden material by doing this, and I don't think we would be, as the current position is a "Message has been removed" page is generated irrespective of the attachment filename

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/xxxxxxx/response/xxxxx/attach/xxx/any-text-can-be-written-here.pdf

[RichardTaylor]

@garethrees notes:

The prominence reason is rendered on to the "message has been removed" page (even when navigating directly to the attached file), so that can be used to "redirect" to the replacement

This is a possible work around but it might be tricky to make it look right on both the request page and on the "message removed" page.

There's a ticket on formatting the prominence reason at

• Better formatting of prominence reasons Better formatting of prominence reasons #3050

HTML in prominence reasons is not currently parsed as HTML so I don't think we can currently include a clickable link.

An un-clickable link isn't ideal.

[HelenWDTK]

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