1310437 - No redirect limit in case of closed loop using window.location.href

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[Anurag]

Attachment: bug.zip

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.143 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

1) Download & extract bug.zip from attachment. Place a.html and b.html in one directory
2) Open a.html using firefox
3) It will go into an infinite loop.


Actual results:

Infinite & endless loop was observed. There was no redirect limit which could stop this redirection.
Memory and CPU overutilization


Expected results:

User should be presented with an alert popup asking if wants to prevent site from creating further redirects.

Comment 1

[Hsin-Yi Tsai (she/her) [:hsinyi]]

We behave the same as Safari and Chrome. Do you have any comment about how we want to enhance this? Thanks.

Comment 2

[Olli Pettay [:smaug][[e-mail]]]

I don't know why or how we could really change the behavior here.
One could always add some timeout and load a new page. And this isn't really different to location.reload()

Reporter, if you think there should be some limit, please file an HTML specification bug explaining why and how you think this should work. Thanks.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues