Why is redirect from `__layout.svelte` ignored, when an unkown route is hit?

I have a small reproducible example here.

In the above repo, there is __layout.svelte file, that will redirect like this:

return {
  status: 302,
  redirect: '/login'
}

Works great when a route is matched, but if there is an error the redirect is not respected. The load function does actually run, but the browser is not redirected to login.

Is this a bug, not allowed - or do I misunderstand something here?

[alexbjorlig]

Ok so It’s a bit hard to explain without a conversation for me. But let’s be concrete. Why is a redirect from __layout.svelte ignored? The load function runs, and returns a redirect. The redirect is then, silenty, ignored. That’s is the purpose of this issue to put clarification to. As a developer, I expect a redirect to happen when I return a redirect 😅

[Rich-Harris]

Going to close this as it’s been obsoleted by the changes in #5748 — it’s no longer possible for an error page to have a load function, meaning this situation can never arise (and errors need to be dealt with more explicitly)