Pagination parameter being added to query parameter when navigating to subcategory

[LeonidasJP]

Affects Version: v8.8.0
Magento Version: 2.4.6-p13, 2.4.8-p3

We're using the QueryParameter filter strategy. This strategy appends all search parameters to the query string, including the current page.
Our client also uses a filter view that renders subcategories. The links that this filter view generate, also receive the full query string, including the Pagination Parameter.

When the Customer uses filters, goes to a later page in a Category and then moves over to another Category using the filter view, this triggers an additional redirect; for example, Customer goes to page 10 of the category "Swimwear", then moves over to the "Speedos", but Speedos has only five pages, you get redirected from Speedos page 10 to Speedos page 5.
swimwear/?p=10 > swimwear/speedos/?p=10 > swimwear/speedos/?p=5

This additional redirect is negatively influencing the SEO of our Client, and we also notice this additional redirect triggers some additional, preventable load. Is it possible to eliminate the Pagination parameter from the URLs that are used in the Category Filter? For example by adding the parameter to the ignoredQueryParameters property?

The links in the filter are generated through \Tweakwise\Magento2Tweakwise\Model\Catalog\Layer\Url\Strategy\QueryParameterStrategy::getCategoryFilterSelectUrl(), and specifically the call to getAttributeFilters() in there, adds the full query string, including the p parameter which is responsible for setting the active page.

[ahuininga-orisha]

@LeonidasJP I'll need to discuss this internally to check if this is something we want. Ill get back to you on that.

Are you sure it redirects to speedos page 5? How it works is that it should redirect to speedos page 1.

I think adding the parameter to the ignoredQueryParameters property would cause issues. I think an better solution would be to unset the page parameter when you switch categories.

[LeonidasJP]

I'll check; I thought it was a 302 Redirect to Last Page, but I'll confirm in a bit.
A "straight to Last Page" would work for us too; as long as that 302 from "out of bounds page" to "last page" gets eliminated :-)

EDIT: Confirmed. Out of Bounds Page redirects with a 302 to First Page.