46115 - browser tells me i am in an infinite redirection loop

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 44153

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect, P3)

Description

[Jeff Lang]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; m17) Gecko/20000720
BuildID:    20000072008

I am writing a php script which checks for a cookie.  If the cookie is not
present, it redirects the user to a login page.  that page takes login and
password and then sends them back to the index page.  This page checks the info
against a database, updates the users cookie, and either redirects to the index
page again (so the the script can  access the newly stored cookies) or redirects
to the login page again.  This is not a coding error.  the page works correctly
in netscape 4.5.  I beleive the error happens when the script redirects to itself.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.go to http://sigboards.sourceforge.net/sigboards/login.html
2.put in a valid username (if you email me i will give you one, but i can't post
it here for public veiwing
3.the browser will produce a page that reads: Redirection error: infinite loop
detected

Actual Results:  error page is displayed

Expected Results:  proccess my index.php3 as usual

Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

necko.

Comment 2

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

dupe of http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40080?

Comment 3

[Gagan]

hmmm... doesn't this behaviour ever die? or is it stuck in infinite redirection? 
:) ->ruslan

Comment 4

[Jeff Lang]

Once the page with "Redirection error: infinite loop detected" is displayed the
browser stops trying to get the page.  So no, the browser does not go into an
infinite loop. it just gives me the page telling me that it found one

Comment 5

[ruslan]

Geez. I though i fixed it. Lemme take a look.

Comment 6

[ruslan]

Yeah. Email me the user name - [e-mail]

Comment 7

[ruslan]

Attachment: Infinite Redirection patch

Comment 8

[ruslan]

Gagan - fix is at hand. Can you review/check this in?

Comment 9

[ruslan]

*** Bug 52790 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 10

[ruslan]

*** Bug 42125 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Fabian Guisset]

This is not my job but... maybe the patch should be checked in? Or if it has
already been, shouldn't this bug be closed?
Fabian.

Comment 12

[muzzle]

(Is this issue still open?)

This bug also manifests itself when you redirect a POST to a GET on the same 
URL.

Comment 13

[Gagan]

pulling in ruslan's necko bugs ->darin

Comment 14

[Stephen Ostermiller]

What is the status of this bug?
Visit
http://www.emeline.com/pacman/index.shtml
without accepting cookies.  You get redirected around forever but a warning
message never pops up.  Is this a result of the fix of this bug?

Comment 15

[shrirang khanzode]

*** Bug 63304 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[Dave]

I get the infinite redirect error message when clicking on
http://www.quicken.com/investments/charts/?symbol=WCOM
However, if you type the URL into the location bar and hit enter, the error
doesn't show up.
Result of this bug or a new one?

Comment 17

[Dave]

Hmmm... if you click on it in my comment it does work.
To get the infinite redirect message, you have to go to
http://qs.cnnfn.cnn.com/tq/stockquote?symbols=WCOM
and click on the "charts" link to the right (second down) of the table with the
stock quote in it.

Comment 18

[Dave]

The link on the cnnfn page looks like this:

<tr><td><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><a CLASS=flashlink
href="http://www.quicken.com/investments/charts/?symbol=WCOM">charts</a></font></td></tr>

Don't know what the heck a "flashlink" is but I assume that's causing the problem???

Comment 19

[Dave]

Oops... cc self. Sorry about the spam.

Comment 20

[Gagan]

->darin (seems like it didn't happen the last time)

Comment 21

[Darin Fisher]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 44153 ***

Comment 22

[benc]

-> duped to http bug

Comment 23

[John Unruh]

verified dupe.