1225593 - Break 301 Redirect Loop by invalidating cache

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 696646

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[Jamie]

Attachment: Network traffic cycling through the http 301 redirects

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
Build ID: 20151116030208

Steps to reproduce:

1. Had a website the returned a 301 permanent to https:// version
2. https:// version broke things and had to revert to http://
3. Added 301 permanent to http:// and removed 301 to https://


Actual results:

Cache detected it has visited website in the past, so it redirects to https:// the https:// has a 301 to http:// it redirects to that. The cache tells firefox to redirect to https:// and the vicious cycle commences


Expected results:

Firefox could detect that there is a 301 cycle happening to the same URI (http vs https) and invalidate the cache

Comment 1

[Jamie]

Just for clarification HSTS was configured on the server.