Sean Conner sean at conman.org
Tue Oct 27 02:16:30 GMT 2020
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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 bitexcessive. The limit of 5 was to help prevent the creation URL shortnersthat 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 pastsome amount (11,329 as of now).
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