Merge pull request #2688 from GSA/2032-bug-redirect-after-user-register-is-going-to-an-error-page

redirecting users to 404

.ds.baseline

@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@
         "filename": "tests/app/main/views/test_register.py",
         "hashed_secret": "bdbb156d25d02fd7792865824201dda1c60f4473",
         "is_verified": false,
-        "line_number": 122,
+        "line_number": 114,
         "is_secret": false
       },
       {
@@ -535,7 +535,7 @@
         "filename": "tests/app/main/views/test_register.py",
         "hashed_secret": "5baa61e4c9b93f3f0682250b6cf8331b7ee68fd8",
         "is_verified": false,
-        "line_number": 199,
+        "line_number": 184,
         "is_secret": false
       },
       {
@@ -543,7 +543,7 @@
         "filename": "tests/app/main/views/test_register.py",
         "hashed_secret": "bb5b7caa27d005d38039e3797c3ddb9bcd22c3c8",
         "is_verified": false,
-        "line_number": 272,
+        "line_number": 255,
         "is_secret": false
       }
     ],
@@ -634,5 +634,5 @@
       }
     ]
   },
-  "generated_at": "2025-06-10T18:39:51Z"
+  "generated_at": "2025-06-18T17:05:12Z"
 }

app/main/views/register.py

@@ -13,12 +13,10 @@ from flask import (
     session,
     url_for,
 )
-from flask_login import current_user
 
 from app import redis_client, user_api_client
 from app.main import main
 from app.main.forms import (
-    RegisterUserForm,
     RegisterUserFromOrgInviteForm,
     SetupUserProfileForm,
 )
@@ -32,15 +30,7 @@ from app.utils.user import is_gov_user
 @main.route("/register", methods=["GET", "POST"])
 @hide_from_search_engines
 def register():
-    if current_user and current_user.is_authenticated:
+    abort(404)
-        return redirect(url_for("main.show_accounts_or_dashboard"))
-
-    form = RegisterUserForm()
-    if form.validate_on_submit():
-        _do_registration(form, send_sms=False)
-        return redirect(url_for("main.registration_continue"))
-
-    return render_template("views/register.html", form=form)
 
 
 @main.route("/register-from-org-invite", methods=["GET", "POST"])
@@ -108,10 +98,7 @@ def _do_registration(form, send_sms=True, send_email=True, organization_id=None)
 
 @main.route("/registration-continue")
 def registration_continue():
-    if not session.get("user_details"):
+    abort(404)
-        return redirect(url_for(".show_accounts_or_dashboard"))
-    else:
-        raise Exception("Unexpected routing in registration_continue")
 
 
 def get_invite_data_from_redis(state):

tests/app/main/views/test_index.py

@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@ def test_robots(client_request):
     ("endpoint", "kwargs"),
     [
         ("sign_in", {}),
-        ("register", {}),
         pytest.param("index", {}, marks=pytest.mark.xfail(raises=AssertionError)),
     ],
 )

tests/app/main/views/test_register.py

@@ -7,20 +7,13 @@ from flask import url_for
 
 from app.main.views.register import check_invited_user_email_address_matches_expected
 from app.models.user import User
-from tests.conftest import normalize_spaces
 
 
 def test_render_register_returns_template_with_form(client_request, mocker):
 
     mocker.patch("app.notify_client.user_api_client.UserApiClient.deactivate_user")
     client_request.logout()
-    page = client_request.get_url("/register")
+    client_request.get_url("/register", _expected_status=404)
-
-    assert page.find("input", attrs={"name": "auth_type"}).attrs["value"] == "sms_auth"
-    assert page.select_one("#email_address")["spellcheck"] == "false"
-    assert page.select_one("#email_address")["autocomplete"] == "email"
-    assert page.select_one("#password")["autocomplete"] == "new-password"
-    assert "Create an account" in page.text
 
 
 def test_logged_in_user_redirects_to_account(
@@ -28,8 +21,7 @@ def test_logged_in_user_redirects_to_account(
 ):
     client_request.get(
         "main.register",
-        _expected_status=302,
+        _expected_status=404,
-        _expected_redirect=url_for("main.show_accounts_or_dashboard"),
     )
 
 
@@ -99,7 +91,7 @@ def test_register_continue_handles_missing_session_sensibly(client_request, mock
     # session is not set
     client_request.get(
         "main.registration_continue",
-        _expected_redirect=url_for("main.show_accounts_or_dashboard"),
+        _expected_status=404,
     )
 
 
@@ -113,7 +105,7 @@ def test_process_register_returns_200_when_mobile_number_is_invalid(
 
     mocker.patch("app.notify_client.user_api_client.UserApiClient.deactivate_user")
     client_request.logout()
-    page = client_request.post(
+    client_request.post(
         "main.register",
         _data={
             "name": "Bad Mobile",
@@ -121,11 +113,9 @@ def test_process_register_returns_200_when_mobile_number_is_invalid(
             "mobile_number": "not good",
             "password": "validPassword!",  # noqa
         },
-        _expected_status=200,
+        _expected_status=404,
     )
 
-    assert "The string supplied did not seem to be a phone number" in page.text
-
 
 def test_should_return_200_when_email_is_not_gov_uk(
     client_request, mock_get_organizations, mocker
@@ -133,7 +123,7 @@ def test_should_return_200_when_email_is_not_gov_uk(
 
     mocker.patch("app.notify_client.user_api_client.UserApiClient.deactivate_user")
     client_request.logout()
-    page = client_request.post(
+    client_request.post(
         "main.register",
         _data={
             "name": "Firstname Lastname",
@@ -141,11 +131,7 @@ def test_should_return_200_when_email_is_not_gov_uk(
             "mobile_number": "2020900123",
             "password": "validPassword!",
         },
-        _expected_status=200,
+        _expected_status=404,
-    )
-
-    assert "Enter a public sector email address." in normalize_spaces(
-        page.select_one(".usa-error-message").text
     )
 
 
@@ -179,9 +165,8 @@ def test_should_add_user_details_to_session(
             "mobile_number": "+12023123123",
             "password": "validPassword!",
         },
+        _expected_status=404,
     )
-    with client_request.session_transaction() as session:
-        assert session["user_details"]["email"] == email_address
 
 
 def test_should_return_200_if_password_is_on_list_of_commonly_used_passwords(
@@ -190,7 +175,7 @@ def test_should_return_200_if_password_is_on_list_of_commonly_used_passwords(
 
     mocker.patch("app.notify_client.user_api_client.UserApiClient.deactivate_user")
     client_request.logout()
-    page = client_request.post(
+    client_request.post(
         "main.register",
         _data={
             "name": "Bad Mobile",
@@ -198,11 +183,9 @@ def test_should_return_200_if_password_is_on_list_of_commonly_used_passwords(
             "mobile_number": "+12021234123",
             "password": "password",  # noqa
         },
-        _expected_status=200,
+        _expected_status=404,
     )
 
-    assert "Choose a password that’s harder to guess" in page.text
-
 
 def test_register_with_existing_email_sends_emails(
     client_request,
@@ -224,7 +207,7 @@ def test_register_with_existing_email_sends_emails(
     client_request.post(
         "main.register",
         _data=user_data,
-        _expected_redirect=url_for("main.registration_continue"),
+        _expected_status=404,
     )
 
 
@@ -383,20 +366,16 @@ def test_cannot_register_with_sms_auth_and_missing_mobile_number(
 
     mocker.patch("app.notify_client.user_api_client.UserApiClient.deactivate_user")
     client_request.logout()
-    page = client_request.post(
+    client_request.post(
         "main.register",
         _data={
             "name": "Missing Mobile",
             "email_address": "missing_mobile@example.gsa.gov",
             "password": "validPassword!",
         },
-        _expected_status=200,
+        _expected_status=404,
     )
 
-    err = page.select_one(".usa-error-message")
-    assert err.text.strip() == "Error: Cannot be empty"
-    assert err.attrs["data-error-label"] == "mobile_number"
-
 
 def test_check_invited_user_email_address_matches_expected(mocker):
     mock_flash = mocker.patch("app.main.views.register.flash")