290479 - bogus 302 found location header

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Tech Evangelism Graveyard :: English US, defect)

Description

[timeless]

[timeless@viper tmp]$ wget -s -S -O -
 'http://rmedia.boston.com/RealMedia/ads/click_lx.ads/www.boston.com/news/world
/1082349754/POPUP/default/empty.gif/30613030666330393432356663323430'
--11:44:06--  
http://rmedia.boston.com/RealMedia/ads/click_lx.ads/www.boston.com/news/world/1
082349754/POPUP/default/empty.gif/30613030666330393432356663323430
           => `-'
Resolving rmedia.boston.com... 66.151.183.67, 66.151.183.102
Connecting to rmedia.boston.com[66.151.183.67]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
 1 HTTP/1.1 302 Found
 2 Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 15:44:06 GMT
 3 Set-Cookie: RMID=0a00fc09425fe140; expires=Fri, 31-Dec-2010 23:59:59 GMT; 
path=/; domain=.boston.com
 4 Location: http://
 5 Connection: close
 6 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Location: http:// [following]
http://: Empty host.

would someone please contact this server's owner and ask them to fix their 
application?

the 18a5 gecko i was using that discovered this page reported hitting its 
redirection limit.

Comment 1

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

(In reply to comment #0)

> would someone please contact this server's owner and ask them to fix their 
> application?

You're more than welcome to do that, but unless you can provide examples of a real-world page where this is happening on a regular basis and making life difficult for Gecko browser users (rather than just *all* browser users), I think this is RESOLVED TEDOESNTCAREABOUTBROKENADSERVERS.