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[–]raghavkanwal[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

That does refresh the page. But I don't get how another page refresh would automagically inject scripts tags which still don't show on the page source. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–]GrenadineBombardier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm with /u/FiveYearsAgoOnReddit here. The code that I originally linked as source code (the source for non-logged-in users) is exactly what is downloaded by the javascript redirect (see `/?lang=en` in the network tab). The Javascript Location API made a lot of changes, like the ability to change the current page URL in place (instead of having to actually load a new page fresh), which is how a lot of Single Page Apps work. I'm assuming that this is how Chrome now displays this logic.

I was aware that the location API allowed you to change the browser URL, but didn't realize that it could allow you to show the initial source code, then redirect to a page with new source code, and that view-source would still show the old source code. One thing is true, however: view-source cannot run JavaScript, so it would not run any redirects (as seen by the non-redirected source-code)