198415 - "Redirection limit for this URL exceeded..." in www.nytimes.com

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Networking: Cookies, defect)

Description

[thkaras]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312

Prior to v. 1.3, this error was returned when one tried to open an article from
the New York Times summary pages. With 1.3, articles will now open, but the
"e-mail this article" feature returns this error.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load www.nytimes.com
2. Load an article from that page
3. Click "e-mail this article" option.

Actual Results:  
See above

Expected Results:  
Open page for addressing e-mail from New York times sending the article.

I believe this error is computer and OS independent (at least between Windows
2000 and Windows XP).

Comment 1

[Chris Lyon]

Try following the steps in bug 170039 to resolve this issue.

Comment 2

[Chris Lyon]

->networking

Comment 3

[Darin Fisher]

reporter: have you placed any restrictions on when sites may set cookies on your
machine?  often preventing a site from setting a cookie will cause this error to
occur.

Comment 4

[Darin Fisher]

reporter sent mail indicating that indeed nytimes.com was listed as a site that
could not set cookies.

marking INVALID.