Brand new auto-drafts with no title or content inserted into database with ugly URL

[henry.wright]

My posts can be accessed by ID. For example example.com/176

If I select Pages > Add new then wait for a few moments without typing a title or content, a row gets written to the database. I can see post_title is Auto Draft, post_status is auto-draft.

Let's say that page's ID is 177. If I now try to go to example.com/177 I get redirected to an ugly URL such as example.com/?page_id=177 and shown a 404 message.

1) Should brand new completely empty auto-draft posts be written to the database?

2) Is there a need to redirect to the ugly URL? i.e. why can't the 404 message be shown at example.com/177

[SergeyBiryukov]

Should brand new completely empty auto-draft posts be written to the database?

Related: #14588, #18800, #19079, #19310.

[henry.wright]

Edit request

The line

I get redirected to an ugly URL such as example.com/?page_id=252 and shown a 404 message.

Should read

I get redirected to an ugly URL such as example.com/?page_id=177 and shown a 404 message

[henry.wright]

Thanks SergeyBiryukov!

[SergeyBiryukov]

29431.patch​ fixes point 2.

[henry.wright]

Tested 29431.patch and can confirm it fixes point 2.

[chriscct7]

Patch is still good to go

[wonderboymusic]

This redirect no longer happens? I can't reproduce...

[wonderboymusic]

In 35480:

Canonical: when /%post_id%/ is the permalink structure, don't redirect IDs that match Auto Drafts.

Props SergeyBiryukov.
Fixes #29431.

[chriscct7]

(in order to reproduce it, you have to set your permalinks structure to be example/(id) so /%post_id%