Assigning to [removed].href without clobbering history

Question

In testing document.location.href, I have observed that when the user initiates an action that results in javascript that assigns to document.location.href, the new URL is a

Answer 1

URL can be manually added to history before redirecting the user.

if (window.history) {
    history.pushState({}, window.location.href);
}
window.location.replace("/login/?next=" + window.location.pathname);