Closed Bug 1180889 Opened 10 years ago Closed 9 years ago

imgur links on Facebook don't redirect properly

Categories

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect)

Product:
Web Compatibility
Component:
Site Reports
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: mccr8, Assigned: karlcow)

References

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URL
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Details

(Whiteboard: [country-all] [sitewait])

imgur.com seems to have recently switched over to using webm where possible. If I paste an imgur webm link directly in the address bar (like https://i.imgur.com/gcNEaJd.webm ) it seems to work just fine by redirecting me, but I'm having some trouble when I click on a link somebody has pasted into a Facebook conversation. Firefox gives me the error message "The page isn't redirecting properly Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete." The link FB generates for the above image is (though it only seems to work if you are logged in to Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FgcNEaJd.webm&h=LAQFTG7uX Presumably something FB is doing to track the link is confusing imgur. The redirect works for me sometimes but not always.
It's imgur redirecting, no idea why (sorry about the spoofed Chrome UA, I was testing with Firefox): GET https://imgur.com/gcNEaJd.webm HTTP/1.1 Host: imgur.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.132 Safari/537.36 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: no,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.5,fr;q=0.3 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate DNT: 1 Referer: https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FgcNEaJd.webm&h=LAQFTG7uX Cookie: __cfduid=d51b86a227507fb798505de4a01bbf0541386608261214; __qca=P0-917532968-1391156059829; __qseg=Q_D; __gads=ID=3e62eb26e5a76e73:T=1395028940:S=ALNI_MaQxINe9ZywSWdOktqZAqfeEbrKtQ; __utma=247341212.142293768.1405759749.1406198016.1419048952.3; optimizelySegments=%7B%222025850214%22%3A%22true%22%2C%221938330135%22%3A%22true%22%2C%221506465808%22%3A%22referral%22%2C%221717910483%22%3A%22none%22%2C%221505515733%22%3A%22false%22%2C%221503675771%22%3A%22ff%22%2C%221893480508%22%3A%22true%22%2C%221933410265%22%3A%22true%22%2C%222359290357%22%3A%22true%22%7D; optimizelyEndUserId=oeu1412434509860r0.5356448380448656; optimizelyBuckets=%7B%7D; _ga=GA1.2.142293768.1405759749; IMGURUIDJAFO=0a79446b03faa43f5b33113bb5139d059e47ba9ef83c1924ea931dad89c33cc2; IMGUR-UID=5110cf3a0f0e0b0032c7560e79f9dff1db18393940bea95372220ec3e0e7779b Connection: keep-alive HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Retry-After: 0 Location: https://i.imgur.com/gcNEaJd.webm Content-Length: 0 Accept-Ranges: bytes Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 21:18:19 GMT Connection: close X-Served-By: cache-fra1225-FRA X-Cache: HIT X-Cache-Hits: 0 Server: cat factory 1.0 Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 ------------------------------------------------------------------ GET https://i.imgur.com/gcNEaJd.webm HTTP/1.1 Host: i.imgur.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.132 Safari/537.36 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: no,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.5,fr;q=0.3 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate DNT: 1 Referer: https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FgcNEaJd.webm&h=LAQFTG7uX Cookie: __cfduid=d51b86a227507fb798505de4a01bbf0541386608261214; __qca=P0-917532968-1391156059829; __qseg=Q_D; __gads=ID=3e62eb26e5a76e73:T=1395028940:S=ALNI_MaQxINe9ZywSWdOktqZAqfeEbrKtQ; __utma=247341212.142293768.1405759749.1406198016.1419048952.3; optimizelySegments=%7B%222025850214%22%3A%22true%22%2C%221938330135%22%3A%22true%22%2C%221506465808%22%3A%22referral%22%2C%221717910483%22%3A%22none%22%2C%221505515733%22%3A%22false%22%2C%221503675771%22%3A%22ff%22%2C%221893480508%22%3A%22true%22%2C%221933410265%22%3A%22true%22%2C%222359290357%22%3A%22true%22%7D; optimizelyEndUserId=oeu1412434509860r0.5356448380448656; optimizelyBuckets=%7B%7D; _ga=GA1.2.142293768.1405759749; IMGURUIDJAFO=0a79446b03faa43f5b33113bb5139d059e47ba9ef83c1924ea931dad89c33cc2; IMGUR-UID=5110cf3a0f0e0b0032c7560e79f9dff1db18393940bea95372220ec3e0e7779b Connection: keep-alive HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Retry-After: 0 Location: https://imgur.com/gcNEaJd.webm Content-Length: 0 Accept-Ranges: bytes Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 21:18:19 GMT Connection: close X-Served-By: cache-fra1240-FRA X-Cache: HIT X-Cache-Hits: 0 X-Timer: S1436822299.644489,VS0,VE0 Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, OPTIONS Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Server: cat factory 1.0 ------------------------------------------------------------------ GET https://imgur.com/gcNEaJd.webm HTTP/1.1 Host: imgur.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/43.0.2357.132 Safari/537.36 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: no,en-US;q=0.8,en;q=0.5,fr;q=0.3 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate DNT: 1 Referer: https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2FgcNEaJd.webm&h=LAQFTG7uX Cookie: __cfduid=d51b86a227507fb798505de4a01bbf0541386608261214; __qca=P0-917532968-1391156059829; __qseg=Q_D; __gads=ID=3e62eb26e5a76e73:T=1395028940:S=ALNI_MaQxINe9ZywSWdOktqZAqfeEbrKtQ; __utma=247341212.142293768.1405759749.1406198016.1419048952.3; optimizelySegments=%7B%222025850214%22%3A%22true%22%2C%221938330135%22%3A%22true%22%2C%221506465808%22%3A%22referral%22%2C%221717910483%22%3A%22none%22%2C%221505515733%22%3A%22false%22%2C%221503675771%22%3A%22ff%22%2C%221893480508%22%3A%22true%22%2C%221933410265%22%3A%22true%22%2C%222359290357%22%3A%22true%22%7D; optimizelyEndUserId=oeu1412434509860r0.5356448380448656; optimizelyBuckets=%7B%7D; _ga=GA1.2.142293768.1405759749; IMGURUIDJAFO=0a79446b03faa43f5b33113bb5139d059e47ba9ef83c1924ea931dad89c33cc2; IMGUR-UID=5110cf3a0f0e0b0032c7560e79f9dff1db18393940bea95372220ec3e0e7779b Connection: keep-alive HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Retry-After: 0 Location: https://i.imgur.com/gcNEaJd.webm Content-Length: 0 Accept-Ranges: bytes Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 21:18:20 GMT Connection: close X-Served-By: cache-fra1242-FRA X-Cache: HIT X-Cache-Hits: 0 Server: cat factory 1.0 Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Seems where Imgur actually wants to take you is https://i.imgur.com/gcNEaJd.gifv
Might it be affected by the referrer or something? Oddly, if I've pasted the direct imgur link, redirect worked and afterwards the FB->Imgur redirect also works.
(In reply to Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors] from comment #2) > Oddly, if I've pasted the direct imgur link, redirect worked and afterwards the FB->Imgur redirect > also works. Yeah, I noticed the same thing.
TIL Imgur users are called "imgurians" ;) I posted the WEBM link from Andrew here for testing: https://m.facebook.com/home.php?s=100006763626692&sstr=1689538384614933&stype=s&gfid=AQAvBi6fgS-Pv7A1&_rdr#!/story.php?story_fbid=1689538384614933&id=100006763626692
URL: http://imgur.com
Whiteboard: [country-all] [needscontact]
Could it be related to cookies and tracking protections? Is there a different behavior if privacy.trackingprotection.enabled is true or false in about:config? Also some other imgur issues: Bug 1185226 - "Save video as" failed to retrieve webm from imgur, giving me gifv instead. Bug 1073120 - [Imgur] imgur only supports photo file types, but doesn't warn a user who tries to upload another file type and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=imgur&list_id=12494562 CONTACTS: Note that https://github.com/Imgur has a repo on github. Maybe https://twitter.com/briankassouf can help us.
Flags: needinfo?(hsteen)
Whiteboard: [country-all] [needscontact] → [country-all] [contactready]
First attempt at contact http://twitter.com/MozWebCompat/status/635598911302840320
Assignee: nobody → kdubost
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Whiteboard: [country-all] [contactready] → [country-all] [sitewait]
Tracking protection makes no difference. Steps to reproduce: 1) Load https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1689538384614933&id=100006763626692&pnref=story 2) Click the imgur link in that post 3) If you get an error screen saying "the page is not redirecting properly" you've found the problem.
Flags: needinfo?(hsteen)
→ http --print hH GET https://imgur.com/gcNEaJd.webm 'User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0' GET /gcNEaJd.webm HTTP/1.1 Accept: */* Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Connection: keep-alive Host: imgur.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0 HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily Accept-Ranges: bytes Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0 Connection: close Content-Length: 0 Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 10:00:31 GMT Location: https://i.imgur.com/gcNEaJd.webm Retry-After: 0 Server: cat factory 1.0 X-Cache: HIT X-Cache-Hits: 0 X-Frame-Options: DENY X-Served-By: cache-lhr6334-LHR → http --print hH GET https://i.imgur.com/gcNEaJd.webm 'User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0' GET /gcNEaJd.webm HTTP/1.1 Accept: */* Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Connection: keep-alive Host: i.imgur.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:48.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/48.0 HTTP/1.1 200 OK Accept-Ranges: bytes Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, OPTIONS Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Age: 6307450 Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 937607 Content-Type: video/webm Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2016 10:01:48 GMT ETag: "fafb4087124980c85b08a6f7c6347c8f" Fastly-Debug-Digest: 283a48ad99b3b1395c4cd754f2520105343c6d8d54754c97d6df503c791a879f Last-Modified: Mon, 06 Jul 2015 10:26:28 GMT Server: cat factory 1.0 X-Cache: HIT, HIT X-Cache-Hits: 1, 1 X-Served-By: cache-iad2123-IAD, cache-lhr6341-LHR X-Timer: S1465207308.862518,VS0,VE1 cache-control: public, max-age=31536000 Andrew: This seems to be fixed?
Flags: needinfo?(continuation)
I haven't noticed this for a while.
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Flags: needinfo?(continuation)
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Product: Tech Evangelism → Web Compatibility
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