diff --git a/system/CodeIgniter.php b/system/CodeIgniter.php
index 18e8d9eaaf2e..d040e6f01787 100644
--- a/system/CodeIgniter.php
+++ b/system/CodeIgniter.php
@@ -1031,6 +1031,11 @@ public function storePreviousURL($uri)
             return;
         }
 
+        // Ignore non-HTML responses
+        if (strpos($this->response->getHeaderLine('Content-Type'), 'text/html') === false) {
+            return;
+        }
+
         // This is mainly needed during testing...
         if (is_string($uri)) {
             $uri = new URI($uri);
diff --git a/tests/system/CodeIgniterTest.php b/tests/system/CodeIgniterTest.php
index 8245d3bf18df..29d511d2a9d3 100644
--- a/tests/system/CodeIgniterTest.php
+++ b/tests/system/CodeIgniterTest.php
@@ -424,6 +424,30 @@ public function testNotStoresPreviousURL()
         $this->assertArrayNotHasKey('_ci_previous_url', $_SESSION);
     }
 
+    public function testNotStoresPreviousURLByCheckingContentType()
+    {
+        $_SERVER['argv'] = ['index.php', 'image'];
+        $_SERVER['argc'] = 2;
+
+        $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = '/image';
+
+        // Inject mock router.
+        $routes = Services::routes();
+        $routes->add('image', static function () {
+            $response = Services::response();
+
+            return $response->setContentType('image/jpeg', '');
+        });
+        $router = Services::router($routes, Services::request());
+        Services::injectMock('router', $router);
+
+        ob_start();
+        $this->codeigniter->useSafeOutput(true)->run();
+        ob_get_clean();
+
+        $this->assertArrayNotHasKey('_ci_previous_url', $_SESSION);
+    }
+
     /**
      * The method after all test, reset Servces:: config
      * Can't use static::tearDownAfterClass. This will cause a buffer exception
diff --git a/user_guide_src/source/changelogs/v4.2.0.rst b/user_guide_src/source/changelogs/v4.2.0.rst
index 077cf64a1ac8..32df0dbdf3d3 100644
--- a/user_guide_src/source/changelogs/v4.2.0.rst
+++ b/user_guide_src/source/changelogs/v4.2.0.rst
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ Behavior Changes
 - To prevent unexpected access from the web browser, if a controller is added to a cli route (``$routes->cli()``), all methods of that controller are no longer accessible via auto-routing.
 - There is a possible backward compatibility break for those users extending the History Collector and they should probably update ``History::setFiles()`` method.
 - The :php:func:`dot_array_search`'s unexpected behavior has been fixed. Now ``dot_array_search('foo.bar.baz', ['foo' => ['bar' => 23]])`` returns ``null``. The previous versions returned ``23``.
+- The ``CodeIgniter::storePreviousURL()`` has been changed to store only the URLs whose Content-Type was ``text/html``. It also affects the behavior of :php:func:`previous_url` and :php:func:`redirect()->back() <redirect>`.
 
 Enhancements
 ************