126339 - Redirection bug

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: Networking: HTTP, defect)

Description

[chris siegler]

Try entering the link above and  you get a "Redirection limit for this URL
exceeded..." message. It's not a loop since konqueror redirects correctly. I see
a limit to redirects to prevent loops was discussed <a
href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83471>here</a>, so maybe the
limit just needs to be bumped up. I'm running 0.9.8

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

What are your cookie settings?  I can reproduce the redirection loop if I
disable cookies, but it works fine with "enable cookies for originating website
only".

Comment 2

[Tom Everingham]

confirming - disable cookies as last reporter noted.  Changing to all.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Um, no.  If one disables cookies the site _does_ send you into an infinite loop
because it was coded by an idiot.  This is easily verifyable with telnet....

So this is only a bug if it's reproducable when cookies are enabled.

Comment 4

[Stephen P. Morse]

See bug 114709.  Same problem there except in that case we were not deleting 
cookied when we should have been.

But in both cases it was an error on the part of the site (as Boris said) to go 
into an infinite loop if it doesn't get the cookies it expects.

My recommendation here is to close this report out as invalid because it is a 
site error.  Has anyone tried this with Nav 4.x and with IE.  You'll probably 
get the same error there too if you have cookies disabled.

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Well, I _do_ get the same error in ns4... but the questio is what Chris's cookie
settins are in Mozilla.

Comment 6

[chris siegler]

you were right. my proxy was blocking cookies from the site. redirection works
once they are accepted. And if I disable cookies in konqueror, I eventually get
a "found a cyclic link..." dialog box.

Comment 7

[Tom Everingham]

ok, thanks for tracking this one down, I didn't look into it deeply enough