Flickering when redirecting on astro website deployed to GitHub Pages

[gregorobreza]

Astro Info

Astro                    v4.1.2
Node                     v18.18.0
System                   macOS (arm64)
Package Manager          pnpm
Output                   static
Adapter                  none
Integrations             none

If this issue only occurs in one browser, which browser is a problem?

No response

Describe the Bug

When configured redirection in astro.config.mjs there is a short flickering noticed on live website deployed to GitHub Pages. It works perfectly fine locally.

What's the expected result?

Redirections should happen seamlessly same as when developing locally.

Link to Minimal Reproducible Example

Deployed page:
https://gregorobreza.github.io/astro-redirect-issue/

GitHub repo:
https://github.com/gregorobreza/astro-redirect-issue

Participation

• I am willing to submit a pull request for this issue.

[ematipico]

Hi @gregorobreza , can you provide a reproduction with the source code?

[github-actions]

Hello @gregorobreza. Please provide a minimal reproduction using a GitHub repository or StackBlitz. Issues marked with needs repro will be closed if they have no activity within 3 days.

[gregorobreza]

Sure updated issue description with GithHub repo @ematipico

[Princesseuh]

I'd be happy to be proved wrong, but I don't think there's really a way to fix this, on GitHub Pages the only way to do a redirect is through a meta tag, which is what we use.

We could maybe allow a custom templates for redirect pages so that people can customize it at least

[ematipico]

Yes, that's how redirects via HTML files work. That's the expected behaviour. Closing.

[ematipico]

We could maybe allow a custom templates for redirect pages so that people can customize it at least

Sounds like good material for an improvement :)