Redirect loops and mazes

It was thus said that the Great Brian Evans once stated:
> Solderpunk wrote:
> > High quality Gemini clients should be able to
> > recognise these conditions and escape, rather than just endlessly
> > following redirects and appearing to "lock up" to the user.
> 
> I absolutely agree. Bombadillo, as a matter of transparency, notifies 
the user that a redirect 
> has been requested and asks if they would like to follow it or not. This 
leaves it always in 
> the user's hands whether or not to proceed.
> 
> I also think this would be a good addition to the torture test, though I 
am unsure as a way
> to validate that a client behvaed correctly.

  Point the client to any of the following:

	gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/redirhell/
	gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/redirhell2/
	gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/redirhell3/
	gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/redirhell4
	gemini://gemini.conman.org/test/redirhell5

  (NOTE:  the links will continuously redirect)

  I suspect that most would expect the client to stop making requests after
N redirects.  What's N?  That hasn't been decided yet.

  -spc

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