306558 - Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for %S in a way that will never complete.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 306409

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Sander Goudswaard]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050830 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050830 Firefox/1.0+

When opening a URL with bad redirects (e.g. it redirects multiple times, or the
redirects loop) the following error page is shown:

"The page isn't redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for %S in a way
that will never complete.

    *   This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
          cookies."


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit a site with incorrect redirects.

Actual Results:  
The error message was shown.

Expected Results:  
%S should have been replaced by the URL I attempted to visit.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

WFM - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050830
Firefox/1.0+

The page loads without issue for me.

Comment 2

[Sander Goudswaard]

URL can be removed, this site had this issue only temporarily. The issue is with
the error message not replacing %S by the URL.

Comment 3

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Looks like we're going to clean those all up one way or another in bug 306409

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 306409 ***