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Redirection limits

Kevin Sangeelee kevin at susa.net

Tue Oct 27 20:27:36 GMT 2020

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It was consequently queried by the Kind and Honourable Sean Conner:

How? Given that a redirection loop can exist across servers.

The link '/test/redirhell/' generates some unique hex for each new redirectpath, which could alternatively have the hex preserved across redirects,but with a counter that's incremented instead. If the counter exceeds, say11428, then return a '50 YOU ARE DRIVING ME NUTS' response code.

As I understand it, the redirhell test redirects back to itself, not acrossservers - my reply was more in sympathy with your server than with theunrelenting client. I'm grateful for your implement of torture, it's beenvery useful!

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