If user is sent to login page with explicit redirect, obey

services/web/app/coffee/Features/Authentication/AuthenticationController.coffee

@@ -157,7 +157,9 @@ module.exports = AuthenticationController =
 		return isValid
 
 	_redirectToLoginOrRegisterPage: (req, res, next)->
-		if req.query.zipUrl? or req.query.project_name?
+		if (req.query.zipUrl? or
+			  req.query.project_name? or
+			  req.path == '/user/subscription/new')
 			return AuthenticationController._redirectToRegisterPage(req, res, next)
 		else
 			AuthenticationController._redirectToLoginPage(req, res, next)

services/web/app/coffee/Features/Subscription/SubscriptionController.coffee

@@ -14,10 +14,7 @@ module.exports = SubscriptionController =
 
 	plansPage: (req, res, next) ->
 		plans = SubscriptionViewModelBuilder.buildViewModel()
-		if AuthenticationController.isUserLoggedIn(req)
+		baseUrl = ""
-			baseUrl = ""
-		else
-			baseUrl = "/register?redir="
 		viewName = "subscriptions/plans"
 		if req.query.v?
 			viewName = "#{viewName}_#{req.query.v}"

services/web/app/coffee/Features/User/UserPagesController.coffee

@@ -48,6 +48,11 @@ module.exports =
 					token: req.query.token
 
 	loginPage : (req, res)->
+		# if user is being sent to /login with explicit redirect (redir=/foo),
+		# such as being sent from the editor to /login, then set the redirect explicitly
+		if req.query.redir? and !AuthenticationController._getRedirectFromSession(req)?
+			logger.log {redir: req.query.redir}, "setting explicit redirect from login page"
+			AuthenticationController._setRedirectInSession(req, req.query.redir)
 		res.render 'user/login',
 			title: 'login',
 			email: req.query.email

services/web/app/views/user/register.jade

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ block content
 							| #{translate("join_sl_to_view_project")}.
 						div
 							| #{translate("if_you_are_registered")},
-							a(href="/login?redir=#{getReqQueryParam('redir')}")  #{translate("login_here")}
+							a(href="/login")  #{translate("login_here")}
 					else if newTemplateData.templateName !== undefined
 						h1 #{translate("register_to_edit_template", {templateName:newTemplateData.templateName})}
 

services/web/test/UnitTests/coffee/Authentication/AuthenticationControllerTests.coffee

@@ -155,10 +155,11 @@ describe "AuthenticationController", ->
 				@AuthenticationController.passportLogin @req, @res, @next
 				@req.login.callCount.should.equal 0
 
-			it 'should send a json response with redirect', () ->
+			it 'should not send a json response with redirect', () ->
 				@AuthenticationController.passportLogin @req, @res, @next
 				@res.json.callCount.should.equal 1
 				@res.json.calledWith({message: @info}).should.equal true
+				expect(@res.json.lastCall.args[0].redir?).to.equal false
 
 	describe 'afterLoginSessionSetup', ->
 
@@ -269,9 +270,6 @@ describe "AuthenticationController", ->
 			it "should set res.session.justLoggedIn", ->
 				@req.session.justLoggedIn.should.equal true
 
-			it "should redirect the user to the specified location", ->
-				expect(@req._redir).to.deep.equal @redir
-
 			it "should record the successful login", ->
 				@AuthenticationController._recordSuccessfulLogin
 					.calledWith(@user._id)

services/web/test/UnitTests/coffee/User/UserPagesControllerTests.coffee

@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ describe "UserPagesController", ->
 		@AuthenticationController =
 			getLoggedInUserId: sinon.stub().returns(@user._id)
 			getSessionUser: sinon.stub().returns(@user)
+			_getRedirectFromSession: sinon.stub()
+			_setRedirectInSession: sinon.stub()
 		@UserPagesController = SandboxedModule.require modulePath, requires:
 			"settings-sharelatex":@settings
 			"logger-sharelatex":
@@ -90,6 +92,20 @@ describe "UserPagesController", ->
 				done()
 			@UserPagesController.loginPage @req, @res
 
+		describe 'when an explicit redirect is set via query string', ->
+
+			beforeEach ->
+				@AuthenticationController._getRedirectFromSession = sinon.stub().returns(null)
+				@AuthenticationController._setRedirectInSession = sinon.stub()
+				@req.query.redir = '/somewhere/in/particular'
+
+			it 'should set a redirect', (done) ->
+				@res.render = (page) =>
+					@AuthenticationController._setRedirectInSession.callCount.should.equal 1
+					expect(@AuthenticationController._setRedirectInSession.lastCall.args[1]).to.equal @req.query.redir
+					done()
+				@UserPagesController.loginPage @req, @res
+
 	describe 'sessionsPage', ->
 
 		beforeEach ->

services/web/test/acceptance/coffee/ProjectInviteTests.coffee

@@ -144,10 +144,6 @@ expectInviteRedirectToRegister = (user, link, callback=(err,result)->) ->
 		expect(response.headers.location).to.match new RegExp("^/register.*$")
 		# follow redirect to register page and extract the redirectUrl from form
 		user.request.get response.headers.location, (err, response, body) ->
-			# redirectUrl = body.match(/input name="redir" type="hidden" value="([^"]*)"/m)?[1]
-			# loginUrl = body.match(/href="([^"]*)">\s*Login here/m)?[1]
-			# expect(redirectUrl).to.not.be.oneOf [null, undefined]
-			# expect(loginUrl).to.not.be.oneOf [null, undefined]
 			callback(null)
 
 expectLoginPage = (user, callback=(err, result)->) ->
@@ -161,14 +157,12 @@ expectLoginRedirectToInvite = (user, link, callback=(err, result)->) ->
 	tryLoginUser user, (err, response, body) ->
 		expect(err).to.be.oneOf [null, undefined]
 		expect(response.statusCode).to.equal 200
-		# expect(link).to.match new RegExp("^.*#{body.redir}\?.*$")
 		callback(null, null)
 
 expectRegistrationRedirectToInvite = (user, email, link, callback=(err, result)->) ->
 	tryRegisterUser user, email, (err, response, body) ->
 		expect(err).to.be.oneOf [null, undefined]
 		expect(response.statusCode).to.equal 200
-		# expect(link).to.match new RegExp("^.*#{body.redir}\?.*$")
 		callback(null, null)
 
 expectInviteRedirectToProject = (user, link, invite, callback=(err,result)->) ->
@@ -421,7 +415,6 @@ describe "ProjectInviteTests", ->
 					(cb) => revokeInvite(@sendingUser, @projectId, @invite._id, cb)
 				], done
 
-			# # # #
 			describe 'registration prompt workflow with valid token', ->
 
 				it 'should redirect to the register page', (done) ->
@@ -438,7 +431,6 @@ describe "ProjectInviteTests", ->
 						(cb) => expectProjectAccess @user, @invite.projectId, cb
 					], done
 
-			# # # #
 			describe 'registration prompt workflow with non-valid token', ->
 
 				before (done)->