It was thus said that the Great John Cowan once stated: > It seems to me that the limit on redirection should be purely a client > issue rather than a hardwired part of the spec. Some clients won't want to > redirect at all, others will want to retry 1 or 5 or 100 times, depending > on what they are being used for. The original limit was 5. But 9,015 (at the precise moment) is a bit excessive. The limit of 5 was to help prevent the creation URL shortners that are so prevelant on the web. Ah, I see that the limit is now mentioned in the Best Practices document, not the specification. Still, a clent *should* give up redirections past some amount (11,329 as of now). -spc (11430 ... )
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